Can't grab mouse with menu bar/main menu open

[Anthony J Lucas]

Binary package hint: gksu

Just a minor niggle. If you do something that requires gksu/gksudo to ask you for your password and have opened a menu from the menu bar in the time it took for the password prompt to come up, the prompt doesn't come up and you get a "could not grab mouse" warning.

Usually you don't have time to open a menu in the time it takes for the password prompt to come up but if pressing the update-manager and then immediately clicking say...system (which is right next to it on my panels) as fast as you can you get this warning. I first noticed this when i was launching update-manager and doing something else at the same time...for one reason or another there was a slow-down and the password prompt took a second or two longer to come up. When it DID come up, as i said i was in the middle of doing something else and happened to have a menu bar menu open and that's how i noticed it.

And the misleading "malicious user" warning is another issue all together.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

I think I can't reproduce this on feisty.. you still can ?

[Anthony J Lucas (anthonyjlucas)]

I could with 100% success rate before. Now what I get is a dialog coming up and then disappearing in a split second with this spit out in the terminal (this is in an up-to-date feisty installation):

** (gksudo:11205): WARNING **: System clock seemed to go backwards?
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Again this was by triggering gksu and then opening one of the 3 panel menu bar menus. Is there any more information you need? Like using gdb or something?

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

See if you have some file related with this at /var/crash and attach it here...

[Anthony J Lucas (anthonyjlucas)]

Here you go

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

It seems to be a GTK bug or a missing feature.

[Anthony J Lucas (anthonyjlucas)]

Do you think it's worth filing a bug over at gtk for it?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gksu (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

Still happening in Jaunty and Karmic, gksu segfaults (the grab warning flashes up sometimes) when launched with open menu, crash report from jaunty system attached.