I am also seeing this under Ubuntu 17.10 Using System76 Kudu Laptop, (named 'galactica' in below syslogd snippet)
Gnome suddenly fell apart, it dropped to a console window, and I had to hard reboot w/ the power button. My syslogd had: Jan 26 00:38:04 galactica org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1431]: Window manager warning: 0x2a00001 (Wolf attac) appears to be one of the offen ding windows with a timestamp of 33630142. Working around... Jan 26 00:38:04 galactica org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1431]: Window manager warning: last_user_time (33630203) is greater than comparison timestamp (33630193). This most likely represents a buggy client sending inaccurate timestamps in messages such as _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW . Trying to work around... Jan 26 00:38:04 galactica org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1431]: Window manager warning: 0x2a00001 (Wolf attac) appears to be one of the offen ding windows with a timestamp of 33630203. Working around... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561294 Title: Not a helpful or appropiate error message displayed Status in metacity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: metacity running compiz --replace as trying to debug an issue with lucid Beta 2 and I get the following output - Window manager warning: last_user_time (1271002643) is greater than comparison timestamp (799652). This most likely represents a buggy client sending inaccurate timestamps in messages such as _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW. Trying to work around... Window manager warning: 0x4600028 (Social bro) appears to be one of the offending windows with a timestamp of 1271002643. Working around... Window manager warning: Received a _NET_WM_MOVERESIZE message for 0x4600028 (Social bro); these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck. while the error output is helpful surely a user seeing "these messages lack timestamps and therefore suck." is not at all helpful and should have a more appropriate error message displayed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/561294/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
