Bug#648562: gtk3 applications abort on errors XI_BadDevice

[Josselin Mouette]

forwarded 648562 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663948
thanks

Le dimanche 13 novembre 2011 à 01:22 +0100, Goetz Gaycken a écrit : 
> After updating to gtk3/gnome3 applications I experience frequent
> application aborts due to "XI_BadDevice (invalid Device parameter)" see
> below. The equivalent gtk2 applications handled the XI_BadDevice
> without aborting. I experienced the problem also in earlier versions of
> libgtk-3-0 e.g. 3.0.12-2

This bug is similar to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728044
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/882956
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24096

> The XI_BadDevice seems to be caused in my case by a (not so uncommon)
> hardware problem which leads to disconnects and reconnects of the USB
> keyboard and touchpad of my Macbook pro. When using gtk2 applications
> the problem only lead to a short interruption during which the touchpad
> and keyboard was not functional.  After the touchpad and keyboard
> get reconnected everything works normally, except for the gtk3 applications
> which abort (see below for error messaes) [The disconnects and
> reconnects also occur under OSX and are from a user point of view
> hardly noticable].

Could you subscribe to the upstream report? They will probably ask you
for details.

Thanks,
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