xorg hangs on dapper (upstream patch available)

[Tom]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg

See

Patch

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/xorg-x11-server/xserver-1.3.0-xkb-and-loathing.patch?view=markup

Analysis:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433131
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10525
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411287
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75578

Is there any chance to get this bug fixed on Dapper LTS?

[Tom (aeby)]

Did you know that LTS is going to be renamed to LTUS (Long Time Until Support)? :-)

Well, fed up with frequent crashes and regular loss of documents I tried to find a workaround. I finally decided to try something drastic and removed execute permissions on /usr/bin/xkbcomp, assuming that the chance the signal handling Xorg bug is triggered decreases with the run time of the fork()-ed process. So far I have observed that after implementing my workaround OpenOffice makes Xorg freeze for up to one minute when you use the menu for the first time - but then the whole thing resumes! That's not what I actually expected to happen but it's far better than having to start another computer to log in, kill Xorg, start a new session twice a day, anyway. I can actually live with a menu taking a minute to open from time to time :-)

I'll let you know if my workaround causes other, more serious drawbacks or the Xorg freezing happens in spite of the workaround.