Selecting and dragging text freezes the mouse pointer

[Ara Pulido]

I am guessing that this is a bug in python-webkit, as I can reproduce the same symptoms in both Gwibber & Liferea.

I have this habit of selecting text while I am reading something on the screen. Unfortunately, when I do this in both gwibber and liferea, the mouse pointer hangs really easily.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open gwibber or liferea.
2. While you're reading a post, select the text you're reading and drag it
3. After a while, the pointer will be frozen.
4. You will need to move to a different xterm to kill the application

Note: this is less painful to reproduce in gwibber, as in liferea any attempt that didn't freeze the application will create a new subscription.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 28 09:08:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python-webkit 1.1.5-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: pywebkitgtk
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

It can also be reproduced with the nv free driver.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Attaching backtrace of the freeze in liferea

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

The x session does not freeze, but the pointer becomes useless, without the ability to click anywhere.

[Sam L. (somethinginteres)]

I can't seem to reproduce this in gwibber. I select text drag it round and the mouse and x session function as expected.