Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl <atz3 yahoo ca> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl <atz3 yahoo ca> wrote:
>> > I went ahead and opened a bug report with suse, so maybe someone
>> > upstream will notice it and realize what's going on? I don't plan to
>> > switch distros any time soon so I might attempt manually building
>> > gnome-shell.
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>> Simply applying that patch onto the gjs package should fix it. It's our bug.
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> What patch is that, maybe I missed something. That sounds fairly simple,
> and I could probably build gjs a lot easier than gnome-shell.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/commit/?id=123b631e40b8e60475e41d32263a3e99207dcfde

>> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778436
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>> > Thanks for informing me about that bug, Amy. If you ever do write
>> > anything up I'll be happy to test, even if you it's something small it
>> > will be nice to get it fixed :D
>> >> On 2 September 2012 05:16, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>> >> > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com> wrote:
>> >> >> On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 08:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote:
>> >> >>> Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulous extension by Amy
>> >> >>> - Window Buttons by Amy
>> >> >>> - Maximus by Amy, which is also throwing an error that holds the prefs
>> >> >>> tool open now, under the latest 3.4.2-3.7.1 which I just updated to here
>> >> >>> and it reoccurs any time I try to open the prefs tool for that
>> >> >>> extension, in the last 3.4.2 it would just crash and disappear like the
>> >> >>> others do: http://paste.opensuse.org/15445377
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> - Dash to Dock
>> >> >>> - Activities Configurator
>> >> >>> - Multiple Monitor Panels
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Besides the one which still crashes it, the others all make the box
>> >> >>> segfault and vanish with no stack trace, immediately.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Craig:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have tried more extensions and find that it "appears" extensions with
>> >> >> prefs.js which create a new GObject.Class crash and others that just use
>> >> >> widgits or prototypes in prefs.js don't.  I am testing on 12.2 rc2 with
>> >> >> gnome-shell-3.4.2-3.7.1.x86_64.
>> >>
>> >> If that's a symptom of crashing prefs widgets (GObject.class vs
>> >> __proto__) then just about all of my extensions would do so - I use
>> >> the same basic code for them all.
>> >>
>> >> Craig - ignore the Maximus prefs widget for now, I uploaded a new
>> >> version on Fri and no doubt that freezing bug you're seeing is a
>> >> result of changes I introduced (possibly as well as the one we're
>> >> trying to track).
>> >>
>> >> I guess in the meantime I can try install OpenSUSE on a VM and rewrite
>> >> my prefs.js to not use GObject.class & test.
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  Jasper