Bug#427406: metacity: No more mouse/keyboard-input possible after closing crashed application

[Claudius 'x2017' Hubig]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.18.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

whenever a crashed application is closed by hitting the "x" button in the titlebar,
Metacity used to showing a window "The application doesn't answer [Close] [Wait]" or
something like this. Now, it causes the system to become unusable by grabbing every
keyboard-input or mouse-clicks. That means:
* The system is still running: xmms continues playing, the hardware-monitor
   refreshes normally.
* I can move the mouse
* No mouse clicks or keystrokes are recognized: Neither Alt+Strg+Backspace nor
   Alt+Strg+F1

I dunno how this can happen, but it happens regulary and reproducible while my system
passes 18h memtest86+-testing.

To reproduce it, do the following:
* Crash an application to make it not answering; I use claws-mail and remove the
   network-connection while it is fetching mails, but it's the same with other apps.
* Click the "x" in the titlebar to close the window
* Wait a few seconds.
* Try to click something or to press a key - nothing happens.

Of course, save all the data before trying this, I'm not responsible for any kind
of data loss.

I'm currently using the nvidia-driver from nvidia.com, but the free nv-driver shows
this bug, too.

Greetings,

Claudius

PS: If more information is needed, you can contact me directly via Jabber
(x2017 at jabber.ccc.de) or ICQ (224-491-597).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.18.0-2   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.5-9+b1   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.4.6-1.1  The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.18.0.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.12.12-1  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.10.12-2  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       1:1.0.3-2  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity0                  1:2.18.3-1 library of lightweight GTK2 based 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.16.4-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.0.3-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.9-1      library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.8-2  X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1                  1:1.0.2-1  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.2.1-1  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.2-1  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  metacity-common               1:2.18.3-1 Shared files of lightweight GTK2 b

metacity recommends no packages.

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