Re: [dev] [st] System freeze when killing X after using st-dropbox

From: Alexander Huemer <alexander.huemer_AT_xx.vu>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:40:22 +0100

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:14:27PM +0100, Andreas Marschall wrote:
> I'd like to report a serious bug that I have for quite some time now
> with st-dropbox. When I install the dropbox version with "sudo make clean
> install" on my Arch WSL box it installs fine and I can use it. But as
> soon as I kill X to go back to tty the screen goes blank (or sometimes I
> see the frozen info from my graphics card that comes up when I do "startx") and the
> system won't response anymore. All I can do then is hit the reset
> button. Typing "systemctl poweroff" in st-dropbox does a similar thing and the thin client
> won't shut down. This only happens with st-dropbox. With st-0.4.1 everything works fine and I
> can kill X and startx respectively.

Use dropbox bisect to isolate the commit that introduced the bug.

Kind regards,
-Alex
Received on Tue Nov 26 2013 - 19:40:22 CET