Selection box freezes xine-ui

[Christopher Cox]

Right click UI for the menu, under "Settings" select "Setup" and under the "Video" tab scroll through the "video driver to use" selection box with the mouse wheel. After a moment (no more then five seconds) of scrolling up and down my desktop freezes and xine takes up 100% CPU usage.

This occurs under any selection box large enough to require scrolling, not just the one I used as an example.

Running Dapper Drake on AMD64 with xine-ui 0.99.4-0ubuntu6.

Note to those trying to reproduce: You'll need to log into another tty and kill the xine process to get your desktop back.

[Román (faneca)]

This happened to me since the time when I used to run Debian Sarge on my AMD K7 desktop, using WindowMaker as the window manager. Now I use a fresh Feisty install on a new Intel Core 2 Duo laptop, and the problem is still there, no matter the windowing system (I mention that because, for instance, when using xine-ui fullscreen on Metacity, it's impossible to show the "control panel", while there's no problem at all when running Beryl, so I think that's a problem in Metacity and not in Xine). It's *always* reproducible. I wonder if it is a bug in the widget system in which xine-ui is written. I always wished Xine developers did a rewrite (indeed, an exact clone) using a modern widget set like gtk+, because I love xine-ui (I don't really like gxine, nor other alternative UIs).

[josh_rosenbluh (rosenbluh)]

You can choose another item (if its one of the first 5), but you cannot scroll without crashing. I tried using the scroll bar, scroll down arrow and the scroll wheel on my mouse. Usually takes down gnome-session when run from the 'Applications' menu, as opposed to from the terminal.

Workaround: Use the arrow keys on the keyboard and select the the video driver with the enter key.

System: AMD x2 5600. Using the proprietary nvidia driver.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi There
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you?, Can you please try with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron?

Thanks in advance.

[josh_rosenbluh (rosenbluh)]

I'm downloading HardyHeron/Alpha5 now. I'll give it a try in the live environment and post back here.

[josh_rosenbluh (rosenbluh)]

Bug works the same way in Hardy. I just booted from the live CD and apt-getted xine-ui.

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Marcus Sentry (thesentry)]

I had the problem since Kubuntu 7.04 on my AMD64 and it is still there in 9.04.

[Pascal Tempier (orogor)]

I experiment the same problem on amd64 actually it s bad enought so that i needtor restart x afterward

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Is this an issue in Maverick?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Andrew Dodd (atd7)]

This is still an issue in Kubuntu 10.10.

First, the UI freezes
Attempting to control-C the application is not possible - hitting control brings xine back to the foreground. It is not possible to click on anything with the mouse. The mouse cursor still works, and KDE edge flipping is still functional.
Normal operation can be restored by SSHing to the machine and killing xine

This occurs on 64-bit Kubuntu on an Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 + NVidia GTX 260M video.

[Jaba (jpylvanainen)]

I can confirm this issue in Lubuntu 10.10

Sometimes after xine-ui freezes it makes Xv unusable. Even after i kill xine I have to reboot to get XV working.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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