Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

Force Quit applet never quits

Bug #894347 reported by Ville Ranki
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:

1) add "Force Quit" applet to panel
2) get a large file (70 megs in this case) and rename it to end with .sh
3) open the file with gedit. gedit freezes.
4) click on "Force a misbehaving application to quit" applet
5) the applet starts, but clicking anywhere does nothing. Pressing esc does nothing.

I didn't find a way to exit this situation without killing gnome-session from VT and this caused unsaved work to be lost.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 5411b7083f2413511daec522a712c016
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Thu Nov 24 13:25:07 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-20 (35 days ago)

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Ville Ranki (ville-ranki) wrote :
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Ville Ranki (ville-ranki) wrote :

This happened to me again. I was trying to kill disk usage analyzer which stopped working.

I was able to get rid of the "click on misbehaving app" dialog after killing metacity and gnome-panel. After this keyboard didn't respond any more so i was forced to restart X.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jane Atkinson (irihapeti) wrote :

I've noticed the same thing in Ubuntu 12.04.

Incidentally, the application doesn't even have to be misbehaving for this to happen. I opened gedit, did nothing with it, and then used "force quit" on it. Everything locked up and I had to restart X.

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keepitsimpleengr (keepitsimpleengineer) wrote :

It happened to me after upgrade to 12.04 Gnome Classic amd64. It was working before upgrade.

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Guy Verrijdt (gverrijdt) wrote :

Same here, only just changed ubuntu session to gnome classic with gnome-panel. Placed Force Quit on the panel and tried to kill a working app (in my case Firefox), mouse arrow kept moving, other than that, system completely froze, couldn't do anything other than Alt/SysRq REISUB. Ubuntu 12.04

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Somenath (somenath-gupta) wrote :

It happened to me after fresh installation of 12.04 Gnome Classic amd64. It was working before (in 10.04).

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Peter-and-Crazybear (crazybear) wrote :

One more person to confirm this on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit. It NEVER works and ALWAYS locks up entire OS. I have to use button on computer to shut down and loose things I'm working on. It worked just fine in 11.04 As I use it from time to time, kindly make some repair or suggestion a priority. Thanks.

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