Can't grab mouse with menu bar/main menu open

Bug #47048 reported by Anthony J Lucas
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gksu (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gksu

Just a minor niggle. If you do something that requires gksu/gksudo to ask you for your password and have opened a menu from the menu bar in the time it took for the password prompt to come up, the prompt doesn't come up and you get a "could not grab mouse" warning.

Usually you don't have time to open a menu in the time it takes for the password prompt to come up but if pressing the update-manager and then immediately clicking say...system (which is right next to it on my panels) as fast as you can you get this warning. I first noticed this when i was launching update-manager and doing something else at the same time...for one reason or another there was a slow-down and the password prompt took a second or two longer to come up. When it DID come up, as i said i was in the middle of doing something else and happened to have a menu bar menu open and that's how i noticed it.

And the misleading "malicious user" warning is another issue all together.

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Marco Rodrigues (gothicx) wrote :

I think I can't reproduce this on feisty.. you still can ?

Changed in gksu:
assignee: nobody → gothicx
status: New → Incomplete
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Anthony J Lucas (anthonyjlucas) wrote :

I could with 100% success rate before. Now what I get is a dialog coming up and then disappearing in a split second with this spit out in the terminal (this is in an up-to-date feisty installation):

** (gksudo:11205): WARNING **: System clock seemed to go backwards?
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Again this was by triggering gksu and then opening one of the 3 panel menu bar menus. Is there any more information you need? Like using gdb or something?

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Marco Rodrigues (gothicx) wrote :

See if you have some file related with this at /var/crash and attach it here...

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Anthony J Lucas (anthonyjlucas) wrote :

Here you go

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

It seems to be a GTK bug or a missing feature.

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Anthony J Lucas (anthonyjlucas) wrote :

Do you think it's worth filing a bug over at gtk for it?

Changed in gksu:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
assignee: gothicx → nobody
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

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Martin Erik Werner (arand) wrote :

Still happening in Jaunty and Karmic, gksu segfaults (the grab warning flashes up sometimes) when launched with open menu, crash report from jaunty system attached.

Changed in gksu (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
Changed in gksu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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