@David -- although the application should not block on the OSD service, the fact is that the service is hanging for no reason for periods of a minute. Indeed I just had a recurrance here where it hung indefinatly. It seems to trigger bad behaviour in xchat at least which causes problems for something more important which triggers gnome-terminal to go non-responsive too (and as far as I know its not using OSD at all). I suspect OSD is doing some kind of X grab over the period it is dead.
For this recurrance OSD hung for over 2 minutes at which point i used VT-1 to grab a core off it and killed it, the machine resumed function and a _heap_ of messages came out. So many that they are still coming out now some 4 minutes after I killed it. I attach the coredump in the hope it is useful; from a karmic machine. ** Attachment added: "core.26302" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36107465/core.26302 ** Changed in: notify-osd (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist => Medium -- OSD hangs up applications leading to them greying out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
