Cpufreq applet locks up desktop with hand Icon (double click) or gnome-panel

[Andy Brook]

Ive done this repeatably, double clicking on the cpufreq applet locks the cursor
in a hand shape, there is no popup, nothing is launched and there is no way to
get a normal cursor back other than by killing the X session, meaning you cannot
launch anything, rendering the current session dead in the water.

Config:
cpufrequtils 0.3-1
gnome-applets 2.12.0-0ubuntu1
libcpufreq0 0.3-1

BREEZY preview on X86_64_k8

http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315157: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315157

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for you bug report, that's an upstream issue, that was already reported:
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315157

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

might be fixed with the cvs now, will need to be tested with the next tarball and edgy

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Comment #13 from Carlos Garcia Campos (points: 12)
2006-06-15 09:08 UTC [reply]

I've rewritten most of the applet. Could anyone check if the bug is still
present in cvs head?

Thanks.

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It'd be nice if somebody could check the Edgy vesion and see if it still happens.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does anybody have the issue on edgy?

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

I can test this on Dapper if you'd like, I've taken to backporting
packages from edgy sources when it suits me.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that would be useful, thank you for working on that

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

Well, this was pretty hard to get working because of the dependencies on newer stuff, and I ended up ignoring them whenever I could get away with it, but I eventually got something built with 2.15.2, and installed it. When I left click or double click on the applet, it doesn't lock up, but a menu doesn't pop up either.

Contrast this with the version 2.14.2: when I clicked on that, the applet and the neighboring system monitor applet would stop responding, but only for about 5 seconds. Not as bad as the bug description, but I remember older versions of the applet being worse, to the point where I'd have to kill the panel. Hope this is useful to know.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

according to upstream comments it should be fixed to edgy. feel free to reopen if that's not the case