On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Phinitnan Chanasabaeng < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I just upgraded my workstation to Gnome 3 and try out its new UI. The > problem I have now is my computer locks up randomly when working with > PCBNEW. I'm quite sure this is not PCBNEW problem because I never had this > problem prior the upgrade. > Most of the locks up happen during zooming with mouse's wheel. So, I would > like to ask (if possible) what could be the cause of this. I'm going to post > a bug report in Gnome's bug tracker. > > Tony > You said, and meant, "whole computer" right? Not just Kicad? > > All applications and the desktop itself are locked up? Yes, the whole computer. This problem only occurs under Gnome Shell which is replaced by Nautilus + Metacity (fallback mode) now. PCBNEW now works good again. > I noticed this the other day (using Gnome 2 and Ubuntu Maverick), too. > Pcbnew (not the whole computer) stops responding/redrawing the window > after zooming around for a while. However, it seems that this doesn't > happen when pcbnew is run directly from a console (thus I was unable > to reproduce this while running pcbnew under gdb). I thought that this > may have something to do with the debug build writing a lot of stuff > into stdout filling a buffer or something and freezing pcbnew when > there's no console open (?). I didn't test this theory, though. > Correct, the debug build will write to stdout, which if run as a child > process > under Kicad, will eventually lock up. > > This is a known problem. So if you want to use a debug build, run it from > the > console. > > The pipe going back into the parent process is never read by the parent, > i.e. > Kicad program, the project manager. I also have this problem. But, for some reason, the problem disappears while Cups daemon is running.
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