Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed with multiple applications
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| | libx11 (Ubuntu) |
High
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Timo Aaltonen | ||
| | Bionic |
High
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Timo Aaltonen | ||
| | Focal |
High
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Timo Aaltonen | ||
| | Groovy |
High
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Timo Aaltonen | ||
Bug Description
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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The bug seems to occur when clicking on a file or folder. It is random and difficult to provide clear steps to reproduce. It is, however, a common situation.
EXPECTED RESULTS
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pcmanfm works without problem.
ACTUAL RESULTS
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All pcmanfm windows become unresponsive, though background processes (e.g. copying) may continue without problem. with the same error message in ~/.cache/
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
pcmanfm: xcb_io.c:259: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_
** Message: 19:58:49.267: app.vala:130: pcmanfm exit with this type of exit: 6
** Message: 19:58:49.268: app.vala:148: Exit not normal, try to reload
(note the timestamp on the message will vary)
AFFECTED VERSIONS
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1.2.5-3ubuntu1
NOT 1.2.4-1ubuntu0.1
UPSTREAM BUG
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https:/
ADDITIONAL NOTES
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Other GTK2 file managers (e.g. Thunar) and applications (e.g. GIMP, Leafpad) seem to have the same problems. This is probably at least rooted in a GTK2 bug:
https:/
To further assert this, note that there is a SpaceFM file manager that is available in GTK2 and GTK3. The GTK2 version displays the behavior. The GTK3 version does not. Same with LibreOffice.
| Stephen McEntee (stephenmce) wrote : | #1 |
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote : | #2 |
| prrvchr (prrvchr) wrote : | #3 |
Hi,
I can confirm this bug .. on Lubuntu 18.04 ...
I already had the same one on Lubuntu 17.04 ...
PCManFM unexpectedly closes when you open a folder and it seems to be more common when the option 'Preserve directory's settings' is enabled
| David Schubert (schubeda) wrote : | #4 |
Same bug here.
After upgrading to Lubuntu 18.04, pcmanfm crashes unexpectedly with the same error message (No such file or directory: '/etc/xdg/
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #5 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
| Changed in pcmanfm (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Bill Miller (wbmilleriii) wrote : | #6 |
Never had this until 18.04. Now it happens on several 64 and 32 bit Lubuntu installs, as well as Ubuntu installs where I've added LXDE.
| Bill Miller (wbmilleriii) wrote : | #7 |
I don't get any error message, it just freezes (mouse still moves) and after a minute or so the "has stopped responding" box pops up.
| Ben (7-ben-a) wrote : | #8 |
I have the same problem with my installation of Lubuntu 18.04.01 LTS on my Shuttle Barebone PC. When using it with my samba share from a NAS in my LAN it crashes a lot.
Also, the icon of PCmanFM in the LXPanel 0.9.3 is not blue but black. If I uptick the heigh of the icons in the panel then the icon becomes blue, when I change it back to its original smaller size it stays blue. But then it changes to black again some time later.
| David Paenson (davepolit) wrote : | #9 |
Same problem here on 18.04 (and previous versions). Crashes often for no special reason. Is there a more stable alternative?
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #10 |
Same problem here with Lubuntu Bionic (18.04.01 LTS 64bit Desktop). PcManFM crashes quite often when accessing folders or files, it seems like a timing problem. There is no any rule of freezing. It is random and it seems is not depending on any action or background activity.
The PcManFM window becomes suddenly unresponsive, virtually it freezes. Eg. it shows the latest hint permanently, no reaction to anything.
When an instance crashes, all the other opened instances become unresponsive without any sign.
Starting a new instance of PcManFM after the crash, it closes all of the frozen instances, and the new one works well. ... for a while.
But never crashes during actions (Copying, Moving, Deleting...etc).
It crashes only when accessing a file or folder by a mouse-click.
Previous version I used are absoulutely OK. (Lubuntu 16.04.xx LTS.)
Thank you in advance,
Regards.
| Ben (7-ben-a) wrote : | #11 |
I want to add, that I love PCmanFM above all other options! We need this to work! The clean surface of PCmanFM fits perfectly into Lubuntu. It was a blessing to work with it. There is no clean alternative.
| Ben (7-ben-a) wrote : | #12 |
I have some additional information regarding the crash. I use a samba share with mp3fs on it. This is a file system that transfers files to mp3 upon access (https:/
Janos Verebes wrote that PCmanFM does not crash while performing actions. I have made the experience that it does crash the connection to the file system while copying from that special file system. This results in a broken mount point on the samba share - broken in the sense that "ls -all" shows "?????" on permission rights and user/group. I have then to unmount it and mount it again.
I am not 100% sure if the file system/mount point crashes because of PCmanFM, though. PCmanFM does not crash in the sense that the UI gets unresponsive. But I have the feeling both isses are related. I never had troubles using mp3fs before upgrading to 18.04.
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #13 |
So important question: which filesystem(s) is this happening with?
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #14 |
Agreeing with Ben I can confirm the situation.
When multiple instances of PcManFM run and one of them freezes by accessing a file by user as it has been described above, other instances' windows become unresponsive, but seemingly the running processes (eg. copying) run in the background. One time I waited until a copying process may end to not to ruin the USB file system, and it seemed the copying process finished successfully despite the UI became frozen. So I think the background processes are running despite the file manager window is frozen.
The freezing may be more frequent when using an USB stick drive or something like that, but it is not depend on the media, but may be the problem occures more frequently then.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #15 |
As a quick response to Walter's important question as I see freezing of PcManFM is not really file system dependent. For me it freezes with NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 (USB sticks) and EXT4 file systems (Lubuntu installed) either. Tested hardware background is a HP Elite 8300 Pro and HP 6300 Pro. Both of the machines uses Pentium G processors with intel Q75 and Q77 chip sets which are nearly the same.
With previously used version 16.04 LTS everything worked perfectly without any error.
Since I know PCManFM is much more than a file manager in Lubuntu systems, it is the base of the whole system handler, Desktop...etc. That's why it is strange when file manager window freezes every other component work along.
As an addendum, using the new Swap policy - when the system handles the swap as a file, the GIMP graphics editor closes suddenly without any sign. Maybe the swap handler can not satisfy GIMP's quite big swap needs. But I don't know. Using the old Swap method, when I use a part of the HDD as a swap area (about 30GB for 12GB Ram installed) GIMP seems to work well. I don't know whether the new Swap handling affects PCManFM crash story or not.
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #16 |
Ok, so at least several filesystems do have this problem.
To get at the bottom of this, we need to be very careful about conflating issues together. There may be some other things that are possibly related, but let's not jump there quite yet. First we need to identify the nature of the problem. Let's stick to one particular set of symptoms triggered by a specific set of actions.
That said, many questions remain:
1. To reproduce, what conditions are necessary and exactly what do I need to do to to make this happen?
2. What are the actual results? I see mentions of freezing and crashing, sometimes both, but those are very different things.
3. Is this only on upgraded versions? Do new installs have the same situation?
4. Any errors in /var/log/syslog, `dmesg`?
5. Any output from pcmanfm itself if run from the command line? `killall pcmanfm && pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu` should do the trick.
6. Does this only happen on real hardware or can this be reproduced on a virtual machine?
In an ideal world, this would be testable on a virtual machine and one could just boot up the live system of bionic and perform a particular set of steps and see the actual symptoms. Random things are incredibly hard (let's say virtually impossible) to fix, especially if no particular errors are shown. That said, until we can figure out the above, I've set the bug to incomplete.
I suspect the error about the conf file is a red herring, by the way. Using `strace` on pcmanfm it looks for several possible config files before it finds what it's looking for and this is not uncommon.
Not found:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
Found:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/xdg/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/
| Changed in pcmanfm (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #17 |
Dear Walter,
I understood everything you wrote. I can promise tomorrow I will do a clean install of Lubuntu 18.04 on a HP Desktop AMD X2 250 machine and avoid any upgrade, and I will test the behavior of the file manager. As I remember - on an updated system of course - the problem came up more frequently when an USB device was connected to the system. Eg. an USB hub with an USB stick inserted in.
Tomorrow I'll test it again. The freezing is not occurred only when I clicked a file on the USB stick but I clicked any of the files or folders anywhere system-wide or even SAMBA shares.
Now, when I tried to describe the freezing to you, PCManFM just freezes when just clicking here-and-there now in the /var/log folder... You can see the click not selects the file, not changes its color as selected, and the black backgrounded hint freezes on the window. Then clicking on an other window, PCManFM file manager instance vanishes. I open the syslog to see what happened: No, there is nothing new in the syslog as if nothing had happened. Now there is no any external drive or device connected to the machine. Uhhhh.. it's a hard thing!
Thank you for the kind helpfulness.
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #18 |
Thanks Janos. I think if we are persistent and approach this scientifically, we can figure it out. If you can figure out some hint (e.g. the USB) start eliminating variables and applying it to multiple situations. When we can find something consistent, we'll be on our way.
The other thing we can try to do is doing an strace. The problem is that is going to be really "chatty" so if we can nail this down to a set of steps we can perform quickly, it will be less of an issue of finding a needle in the world's biggest haystack.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #19 |
Dear Walter,
In last two days I haven't got time to look around in the topic, but I discussed this problem with colleagues who develop softwares for instruments using Linux, asking for their opinion. They told me if the file operations remain alive after window crashing, it can mean the problem must be a window manager problem instead of problem of the file manager itself. I appreciate their opinion, so first of all I will check the live CD with "Try Lubuntu" function, which is the purest version of Lubuntu without extra packages. If the problem comes up, we will get closer to the solution.. So tomorrow.
Thanks for your help,
Regards,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #20 |
Dear Walter,
So here I am with the test result.
Starting only the Live CD without any extra driver, software, etc...
I don"t really know whether it is a bad news or good:
It does produce the freezing also.
The situation we can see is just the same, black backgrounded file-hint stuck on the screen, no window-handler response, waiting a while, then all the PcManFM instances vanish with no log of any problem.
With this test I wanted to make sure the problem is not because of an extra not-so-compatible driver or window compositing.
I have made the test on Lubuntu 18.04.1 amd64 release.
Test machine was my HP Elite Pro 8300 (Pentium G2030 processor @ 3 GHz, 12GB of DDR3 ram @ 1333MHz) Winchester was not affected in any situation using the LiveCD function.
On Monday I will perform this test on an AMD X2 machine also.
Best regards,
Janos
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #21 |
In regards to actually fixing the bug, this is great news. This means that I should be able to reproduce it myself. Can you give me clear steps to follow, especially with the default ext4 filesystem? That will make it even easier if there are no special conditions.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #22 |
Dear Walter,
There is no special conditions, only boot from USB or CD with Lubuntu 18.04 LTS on it, and choose "Try Lubuntu" function instead of "Install Lubuntu". There is no need to use a HDD or SSD either.
There, when Desktop completes, click on the "File manager" icon in the upper left corner, and there I started another instance, and started to just clicking around or try to copy any folder into for example to Documents folder.. When I tried to click on the target directory I got a freeze then vanishing. Checking for the log in folder you mention above, there was nothing about the crash.
It seems the Task Manager shuts down PcManFM since it is not responding. In Live CD (Try Lubuntu) mode - before any installation - all the tasks run in the main memory, so it is dependent none of the installed file systems. By the way normally I use Ext4, but in this situation it really doesn't matter.
Regards,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #23 |
Dear Walter,
Just a little addendum.
When PcManFM freezes, all the running instances of it freezing, however their windows are manageable which means minimizing, maximizing, moving are working but telling the truth wen maximizing of course it doesn't show any window content since the program is not responding. It is closing which is not working since the task manager cannot send the normal close command. Then the task manager sends a message the program is not responding.
When starting a new instance of PCManFm before this message appear, all the instances vanish from the screen, and the new one will work correctly until the next crash.
Thank You,
Best wishes,
Janos
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #24 |
Here's what I tried based on my interpretation of your steps to follow:
1. Boot 18.04.1
2. Select "Try Lubuntu"
3. Right click on the "Trash" icon at the upper left, click "Open in New Window"
4. Repeat step 3
5. Open the task manager to keep an eye on things
6. In one of the PCManFM windows (let's call this Window A), click "Home Folder"
7. Right click, "Create > New Folder", take the default name ("New")
8. In the other window (let's call this Window B), click "Home Folder"
9. Open the "Documents" folder
10. From Window A, drag "New" folder onto Window B ("Documents")
11. In Window B, drag "New" folder back onto Window B ("Home Folder")
At no point was there any freezing or even really reduced performance.
This was in a virtual machine, so maybe that's part of the problem, but I think it's more likely that the issue is that clear steps to reproduce aren't there.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #25 |
Dear Walter,
Unfortunately you are right,
There is no clear steps to get a freeze. It is completely stochastic, depends on no special steps. Whenever it thinks it freezes. Strange because of no other program freezes, window managing seems to be OK, in this way I have to thing the problem is when accessing file elements. And it happens even when just perform a one-left-clink on a file single file or folder.
The question is, what happens when a left-click performed. It accesses file or just a screen function (but probably the first one.) ?
So today I perform a clean test on a real machine booting a LiveCD but now on an AMD X2 250 system - to avoid the question of any specific processor timing problem. (Since Pentium G has a 3 level cache while AMD has the good old architecture).
Thanks and best wishes,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #26 |
Dear Walter,
I have the results from HP machine with AMD Athlon II 250 processor and 4GB Ram.
After booting Live CD and starting PcManFM I nearly immediately got the crash.
Apport function dropped up a "System Program Error Detected" window, then I succeeded to save some logs from /var/log and /var/crash.
If any of them can be helpful I can send you... if I can get an e-mail address or sg. like that. In /var/crash there is a 10,1MB sized "_usr_bin_
And some more words: Since AMD machine is a bit slower than Intel G machine, after the freezing - in the waiting time - I could start another instance of PcManFM which also started frozen, then all the instances vanished. Only after vanishing I could start a new, yet working instance.
Regards,
Janos
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #27 |
You should be able to attach the files here. The .crash will likely be the most useful.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #28 |
OK, thanks, Here I send all the saved logs include the .crash file syslog, kern.log etc.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #29 |
Just a little update,
clicking the "Go to parent directory" (Up arrow) in PcManFM window I got a crash also. So not the file or directory clicking cause crash only.
Thanks,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #30 |
A new Crash file (/var/crash/)is available from an istalled Lubutnu 18.04.1 64 bit desktop version.
The situation is just the same, when accessing a directory, PcManFM window freezes.
Regards,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #31 |
Important News!
Trying find an other file-handling solution instead of PcManFM, I installed Thunar on Lubunu 18.04.1 LTS,
AND IT DOES JUST THE SAME KIND OF FREEZING !!!!
Accessing directory or file it freezes.
Unfortunately there is no crash report so far...
But the situation is just the same.
That can easily mean the problem is not a PCManFm problem.
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #32 |
The topic seems to be a bit abandoned suggesting all is good as it is not.
A little workaround since PCManFM handles the desktop well, to install CAJA file manager with its plugins (originally comes with Mate desktop). As I work with it for about two weeks it seems to be OK. No freeze, no problem with Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
I am one of those who are enjoying lightning speed and great scalability of Lubuntu for years, and it would be really sad having to give it up and change to a "maybe shinier" but much slower desktop. I want to try anything to bring it back to life since PcManFM is my favorite, but editing, renaming, copying, moving lot of files as I do makes this freezing problem quite an annoying and somehow dangerous. Until a reliable solution comes up I work with Caja as a second possibility of file managing.
If any of "suffering" Lubuntu Bionic users is interested in using caja and its plugins, install the following packages:
sudo apt install caja caja-open-terminal caja-extensions
("mate-terminal" is for "Open terminal here" function, and "engrampa" archive manager is for "create-archive" function.)
Thanks, Regards,
Janos
| Ben (7-ben-a) wrote : | #33 |
Thanks for the information! I tried to copy via terminal from my samba share and this also crashed my mount point of the mp3fs on the share the same way as with using PCmanFM. I am not an expert, but maybe the problem is not related to PCmanFM but more deeply in the kernel?
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #34 |
Hi Ben,
Recently I had problem with Samba share, but with a little workaround I managed to solve the problem.
Since Samba is also modified in Ubuntu 18.04 it is needed to look for your problem. Using Caja I have no problem like I had with PcManFM, but no mention it is a deeper problem because Thunar freezes also with Lubuntu 18.04.
Just for a try I share my Samba workaround with you, maybe you will find something different between your and my packages or configuration.
Let us see:
The way I installed Samba for enable and handle sharing is:
sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-extra samba-common samba-common-bin winbind libpam-winbind libnss-winbind libgnomevfs2-bin fam gnome-mime-data samba python-glade2 system-config-samba smbclient cifs-utils heimdal-clients
then after making my network seetings (Host name, Workgroup) ...
edit /etc/samba/smb.conf
and go to the Global Settings section
(under global these two new lines enables file manager to see and browse Samba shares, the line at the bottom "client max protocol = NT1" sets the protocol as it worked well in lubuntu 16.04 ).
So make the following modifications like this below:
#======
[global]
client use spnego = no
client NTLMv2 auth = no
## Browsing/
# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = WORKGROUP
client max protocol = NT1
Save the file,
Then give this another try with Caja! ...and of course don't forget to write your experiences :)
It works for me like a charm.
Formerly I used package GAMIN (which caused problems) instead of FAM. Since using FAM there is no problem.
For me PcManFM and Thunar freeze even when accessing local files, caja seems to solve the problem so far. However PcManFM is faster, better, etc... but since it freezes, I am not brave enough to handle my files with it.
Ps: and an other great plugin for caja is caja-rename which gives caja a really powerful bulk renaming function.
sudo apt install caja-rename
Regards,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #35 |
PCManFM 1.3.0.1 on Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Thinking a big, I looked for PCManFM 1.3.0.-1 at launchapd.net:
https:/
and downloaded the .deb file below from the "Downloadable files" section here:
http://
Surprisingly all the dependencies are satisfied, so no modifications needed to use this file with Lununtu 18.04.1
And tested...
No freeze so far, however I've made a bunch of file operations.
I continue testing for some days, I will write my experiences.
Regards,
Janos
| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #36 |
Sorry, the links I gave (in previous message) are bad.
Now, the good ones again.
First is for launchpad.net:
https:/
And the second one is for the download link (amd64 achitecture):
http://
Sorry again for the inconvenience.
| Changed in pcmanfm (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote : | #37 |
Hello,
Does this happen on Lubuntu 16.04 as well? What about 14.04?
Once we have this knowledge and once I can reproduce it, I can go about Git bisecting the commit which caused this, so I can then analyze the changes between the 18.04 copy and the 18.10 copy (if that does indeed work) and find the fix.
If I can't reproduce this, it will be much harder, but it's a step in the right direction regardless.
Thanks everyone for your time working on this bug.
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| Janos Verebes (janoka72hun) wrote : | #39 |
Hello,
Answering Simon's question: No, on 16.04 and 14.04 everything is OK !!!!
The problem started (as it is mentioned by "prrvchr" up above at message #3) from Lubuntu release 17.10, which I can not confirm, since I never used 17.10. I use mostly the LTS releases.
But I can strongly confirm the problem with 18.04.
I help you of course, the problem is also mine, since I'm a Lubuntu fanatic :)
and I really want it to work well.
To Walter:
Maybe, but I can only tell my experience, Thunar produces just the same kind of freeze as PcManFM. Trying Thunar in original Xubuntu Bionic I could not recognize the freezing, however I don't like Xubuntu. There are many other hard things with that... which are always leading me back to Lubuntu. :)
But what I found, I was able to upgrade PCManFM 1.2.5 to the version 1.3.0 (comes with Cosmic) from Lauchpad.net
This new version can use Bionic's original Libfm 1.2.5 without any problem.
I've used it about for a week and
THERE IS NO MORE FREEZING. EVERYTHING IS WORKING WELL.
I'm really curious what is the difference between 1.2.5 and 1.3.0 ?
Caja also works with Lubuntu Bionic well, without any problem, no freezing.
I have only tried Lubuntu Bionic yet.
My gvfs version:
****************
gvfs:amd64 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
gvfs-backends 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
gvfs-bin 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
gvfs-common 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
gvfs-daemons 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
gvfs-fuse 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
gvfs-libs:amd64 1.36.1-0ubuntu1.1
My libglib version:
*******************
libglib-
libglib-perl 3:1.326-1build1
libglib2.0-0:amd64 2.56.2-
libglib2.0-bin 2.56.2-
libglib2.0-cil 2.12.40-2
libglib2.0-data 2.56.2-
libglibmm-
Regards,
Janos
| Mike (calimer) wrote : | #40 |
Hi! I am not a linux expert but I'm having the crashes with PCManFM too, all the time. I rarely, if ever had them on Lubuntu 16.04.
RE: "I'm really curious what is the difference between 1.2.5 and 1.3.0?"
Here is the diff on the launchpad page:
http://
From this page:
https:/
Hopefully this helps :) I hope you all have a great day and thank you for your efforts on this!
-Mike
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| Ilya Kotov (forkotov02) wrote : | #65 |
I have same problem with all gtk2 applications https:/
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #66 |
Can EVERYONE that has the problem confirm something similar to the error:
pcmanfm: xcb_io.c:259: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_
????
If so we have an upstream bug:
https:/
| Carlos García-Angulo (cgarciang) wrote : | #67 |
Just the same:
(pcmanfm:1034): GLib-CRITICAL **: 22:26:36.391: Source ID 45146 was not found when attempting to remove it
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
pcmanfm: ../../src/
** Message: 22:27:01.102: app.vala:130: pcmanfm exit with this type of exit: 134
** Message: 22:27:01.102: app.vala:148: Exit not normal, try to reload
** Message: 22:27:01.108: app.vala:76: Launching pcmanfm
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #68 |
Thanks, Carlos. If I can get one more confirmation of this, I'm inclined
to call it a trend and I'll push it upstream because I suspect that will
be sufficient to figure out where the solution may lie.
However, my concern is where the upstream is. Ilya says they're having
the problem with many GTK2 apps, so perhaps this is not LXDE's issue but
GTK's. Can anyone confirm they are also having problems with other GTK2
apps?
Hello,
I have the same problem. When PCManFM is used, it crashes after approximately one hour.
The file ~/.cache/
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
pcmanfm: ../../src/
** Message: 17:49:25.678: app.vala:130: pcmanfm exit with this type of exit: 6
** Message: 17:49:25.678: app.vala:148: Exit not normal, try to reload
** Message: 17:49:25.679: app.vala:76: Launching pcmanfm
The command "lsb_release -a" indicates:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
The command "dpkg -l | grep pcman" indicates:
ii pcmanfm 1.2.5-3ubuntu1 amd64 extremely fast and lightweight file manager
I used PCManFM several years without problems. During the last month or two (not very precise), it crashed some times. But this WE, I had to intensively use PCManFM, so the crash occurred 5 times.
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
| rych (irych) wrote : | #70 |
Walter: occasionally even Leafpad would crash, although I do not have a log of those rare events. But now I have another GTK file manager that locks-up on me in similar way. I've been trying the OpenBox variant of Porteus which comes with SpaceFM. We've pulled out a latest alpha of SpaceFM. It crashes too, albeit less frequently than PCManFM. The developer of SpaceFM apparently is trying to fix multithreading bugs, see https:/
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #71 |
Rych, as I mentioned before Ilya had expressed issues with other GTK
apps. In particular, the same error appears in /var/log/syslog with
LibreOffice, so that may be somewhere to check:
https:/
The one thing to notice about this is that this is a problem with GTK2.
With GTK3, it's implied there are no such problems. We know that LXDE is
not GTK3 compliant. However, SpaceFM seems to be able to support GTK3,
so try that and see if it doesn't fix your problems.
As an aside, PCMan himself abandoned GTK in lieu of Qt since GTK3 was
more of a resource hog. If you want a distro that's non-GTK, go for
Lubuntu 18.10+ as it uses LXQt.
Thank you, @Walter for the excellent advice! SpaceFM GTK3 works well: 3 days so far without any freezes!
| rych (irych) wrote : | #73 |
SpaceFM GTK3 indeed works without hanging. Moreover, there is finally a report about the rarer Leafpad crash: the error in the LXDE log is **identical** to pcmanfm error.
This suggests that PCManFM (or Leafpad) are not the cause but are themselves victims of an upstream problem (with GTK2 probably)
| EnduranceCode (endurancecode) wrote : | #74 |
I have the same problem with PCManFM, it randomly crashes/freezes all the time. It started happening with a fresh install of Lubuntu 18.04.01 in a custom made desktop and in a Dell Latitude D820 Laptop. Last week I've downloaded the latest version of Lubuntu 18.04 and made a new fresh install in the Dell laptop and the problem persists.
Like MarkF (az2008), I also suspect that the problem is related with clicking to fast.
My GIMP instalation also crashes randomly. It crashed when I've installed from the Ubuntu's PPA and it continues crashing after I've installed it from Kesselgulasch's PPA. I have the same problem with Inkscape, it also randomly crashes all the time. It crashed when I've installed from the Ubuntu's PPA and it continues crashing after I've installed it from the official Inkscape's PPA.
This problem is very annoying and it criples my productivity. Does anyone knows if the problem disappears in Lubuntu 18.10?
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #75 |
@EnduranceCode: Lubuntu 18.10 does not use LXDE, but LXQt, so it's not
PCManFM, but PCManFM-qt. It does not suffer this problem because as
suggested in the last few comments, the problem seems to be related to
GTK and particularly GTK2. LXDE is still not GTK3 compliant, but if it
was, I believe that would solve this problem. You might want to check
and see if you have the errors reported above, as that would again go a
long way to further confirm this.
@wxl: Walter Lapchynski,
Can you please tell me what I should look for in /var/log/syslog or in any other file? I woul like to help but I'm not sure how to do it.
Thank you
| Changed in pcmanfm (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Critical |
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #77 |
@EnduranceCode, you would want to look in ~/.cache/
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
pcmanfm: xcb_io.c:259: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_
** Message: 19:58:49.267: app.vala:130: pcmanfm exit with this type of exit: 6
** Message: 19:58:49.268: app.vala:148: Exit not normal, try to reload
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: lubuntu |
| summary: |
- PCManFM crashes frequently on Lubuntu 18.04 + PCManFM freezes with Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed + when clicking on a file or folder in 18.04 |
| Isny (isny) wrote : Re: PCManFM freezes with Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed when clicking on a file or folder in 18.04 | #78 |
** (zeitgeist-
evince 'file:/
pcmanfm
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
pcmanfm: ../../src/
** Message: 15:30:11.189: app.vala:130: pcmanfm exit with this type of exit: 134
** Message: 15:30:11.189: app.vala:148: Exit not normal, try to reload
** Message: 15:30:11.193: app.vala:76: Launching pcmanfm
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| Loob Ngawe (loob) wrote : | #80 |
This bug still exists. PCManFM randomly freezes and prompts me to end the process.
Like @Patrick Schmitt, I receive a "Sorry Ubuntu has experienced an internal error ...." message, and when I than try to see the details of the error message, the message window itself crashes instantly.
In addition to this, the desktop icons will disappear, leaving just my wallpaper. I can't get my icons to reappear unless I restart my computer.
Today, matters got worse. Now when PCManFM freezes and its process ends, my desktop completely resets to its default state. I see the default Lubuntu wallpaper and all my icons lose the places I moved them to and shift to the left side of the screen. The font size and color reset to the default too.
It's been over a year since this issue started. This is getting ridiculous. I'm a new user to Linux and I have to face an issue like this within months of picking up this distro. Developers, I hope you realize this is a very bad look for you. Windows would have fixed a bug like this within a day. I thought LTS was supposed to be the stable version?
Can someone please tell me how to solve this? Does installing Caja File Manager really work?
| Bayu Aditya H. (bayuah) wrote : | #81 |
Hi!
Beside PCManFM, my Geany also has same error message.
Maybe this is something to do with mesa?
https:/
Thank you.
| Daniel Voyce (voycey) wrote : | #82 |
Hi All,
This problem still exists in LXDE - after reading the comments here I upgraded to LXQT and I am still experiencing the same problem.
This seems like it is something endemic to this desktop environment and I would also agree that it seems to come about from "Clicking too much".
Basically Lubuntu is unusable as is which is a huge shame - especially as LXQT is really sleek for my uses.
| Hans P. Möller (hmollercl) wrote : | #83 |
just wanted to tell that this bugs are the same: https:/
https:/
https:/
| Hans P. Möller (hmollercl) wrote : | #84 |
@Daniel, could you please proivde logs of the problem in LXQt? Just to see if it's the same problem or another.
| Hans P. Möller (hmollercl) wrote : | #85 |
@voycey coulkd ypu please provide logs of the issue in LXQt?
| Walter Lapchynski (wxl) wrote : | #86 |
Actually, Daniel, your mention of "upgrading" to LXQt has me wondering whether or not you took an LXDE version and then upgraded to an LXQt version(unsupported by Lubuntu, officially) without cleaning up all the old LXDE/GTK stuff. This could certainly lead to you using pcmanfm rather than pcmanfm-qt or otherwise using some app or apps that use GTK2, which everything seems to point to being the problem. LXQt doesn't use GTK-anything, so it should entirely be a non-issue.
| Ilya Kotov (forkotov02) wrote : | #87 |
Bug report with similar error https:/
| Guus Ellenkamp (ellenkampguus) wrote : | #88 |
Yeah, really annoying. Happens often to me and no clue when it happens, but it happens like every fifteen minutes or so. I was just looking to install another file manager and found this bug report. And I am a programmer and happy to help, but not familiar with anything like this.
| Guus Ellenkamp (ellenkampguus) wrote : | #89 |
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
pcmanfm: ../../src/
** Message: 20:37:32.170: app.vala:130: pcmanfm exit with this type of exit: 134
** Message: 20:37:32.170: app.vala:148: Exit not normal, try to reload
** Message: 20:37:32.172: app.vala:76: Launching pcmanfm
| alex-mobigo (alex-mobigo) wrote : | #90 |
Hi, any news on this?
I have the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.
I have upgraded from 16.04 recently and started to have this error.
This bug also affects leafpad and probably meld.
meld has a fix or workaround but can't remenber what was the fix, i had to install the latest meld from source, that fixed the problem.
I would like to hear if someone found any workaround or is it a bug on libX11?
https:/
Looks like google chrome freezes from time to time in a very similar way but could be a tone of things, just for the record.
What can i do to help?
| alex-mobigo (alex-mobigo) wrote : | #91 |
Just to add a few thoughts, this bug affects Google Chrome also.
The error is hard to reproduce, it happens anytime, even if in idle mode. However Chrome seems to do a lot of things in the background.
I've put this here just to ask if the bug could be somewhere else, like in the libxcb or libx11 that causes other applications to crash.
I upgraded a few days ago from 16.04 and there were no problems.
| Tycho Kirchner (spawn-bugs) wrote : | #92 |
Apparently it's a bug in libx11, which persisted for a long time but
became much more likely with an update in libxcb.
Please see the still open merge request/patch at
https:/
Further reading:
This bug report (as it turned out now, it's probably *not*
a bug in gtk though):
https:/
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #93 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| summary: |
- PCManFM freezes with Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed - when clicking on a file or folder in 18.04 + Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed with multiple + applications |
| alex-mobigo (alex-mobigo) wrote : | #94 |
I would like to add some info that may help to narrow the problem.
I have had this crash in PCManFM since i upgraded ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 but the same bug manifest in Geany and Chromium as well. The bug could hit PCManFM within a few clicks opening directories and then clicking on a file or can take hours to show up. In the case of Chromium it usually hit at the launch of the browser.
I rebuilt the LibX11 with the supposedly fix mentioned by Tycho Kircher and apparently this has not fixed the problem but the crash is now without the Assertion `!xcb_xlib_
I installed only these packages:
* libx11-
* libx11-
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
| alex-mobigo (alex-mobigo) wrote : | #95 |
Ouch, I missed this commit: https:/
I Will try again.
| alex-mobigo (alex-mobigo) wrote : | #96 |
I applied the patch attached (libX11) but the crash still occurs with less frequency.
Maybe i missed some additional patch required to fix this.
For the record:
I am running LUbuntu in this PC box (upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04) and i have another one with Ubuntu 18.04 + LXDE installed from scratch that doesn't get the error.
Anything else i could try?
The attachment "This patch is not the fix. WARNING" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.
[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]
| tags: | added: patch |
| alex-mobigo (alex-mobigo) wrote : | #98 |
I think i got it right this time.
I managed to apply the proposed libx11 patch, installed the right libx11 deb and it worked so far.
If anyone willing to test the fix i pushed it to https:/
Mind that if ubuntu team release a new version of the libx11 you might not get it installed and will need to reinstall the previous version.
Cheers
| no longer affects: | pcmanfm (Ubuntu) |
| Mathew Hodson (mhodson) wrote : | #99 |
Fixed in libx11 version 1.7.0 with https:/
Does anyone know if an update of the libx11 package for lubuntu 18.04 will be released?
| Mathew Hodson (mhodson) wrote : | #101 |
libx11 (2:1.7.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release.
* patches: Refreshed.
* signing-key: Added key from Keith Packard.
* symbols: Updated.
-- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:47:58 +0200
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #102 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Looking into this a bit later when I do some real hardware testing.
Thanks for the bug report.