Re: Long pauses in applications maybe due to gpbs : Timed out waiting for X...

[Fred Kiefer]

The interesting line is:
Owning program failed to convert data.

Could it be that the content of the pasteboard was something that wasn't
a string, but our code always expects that it can be converted to a string?

Am 30.01.2011 22:10, schrieb Philippe Roussel:
> Le samedi 29 janvier 2011 à 21:26 +0100, Philippe Roussel a écrit :
>> Le samedi 29 janvier 2011 à 14:11 +0100, Fred Kiefer a écrit : 
>>> I remember this behaviour form way back, but cannot remember seeing it
>>> in recent years. I may just have been lucky, though.
>>> Could you please start gpbs manually and switch on debug output for "Pbs"?
>>> This command should do the trick:
>>> gpbs --GNU-Debug=Pbs --verbose --verbose
>>>
>>> Providing verbose twice should given even more output than using in once:-)
>>>
>>> The whole pasteboard interaction is a bit of a mess.
>>
>> And, how surprising, I can't reproduce the problem anymore. And I have
>> no idea what could have changed since yesterday...
> 
> I managed to capture a 3 second hang but I'm not sure the log will help
> much. The first panel I opened worked fine but at 22:05:44 I opened a
> second one in the same application hit the timeout :
> 
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.002 gpbs[7030] <PasteboardObject: 0x9a0ce50> get data for 
> type 'NSStringPboardType' version 1
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.002 gpbs[7030] PropertyNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.002 gpbs[7030] Selection (PRIMARY) notify - 'None'.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.002 gpbs[7030] Owning program failed to convert data.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.002 gpbs[7030] SelectionNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] PropertyNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] Selection (PRIMARY) notify - 'None'.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] Owning program failed to convert data.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] SelectionNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] <PasteboardObject: 0x9a0ce50> set data for 
> type 'NSStringPboardType' version 1
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] set data for 0x9a0b9c8
> 2011-01-30 22:05:24.003 gpbs[7030] get data for 0x9a0b9c8
> 2011-01-30 22:05:44.903 gpbs[7030] <PasteboardObject: 0x9a0ce50> get data for 
> type 'NSStringPboardType' version 1
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.906 gpbs[7030] Timed out waiting for X append for 
> Selection
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.906 gpbs[7030] PropertyNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.906 gpbs[7030] PropertyNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.906 gpbs[7030] Selection (PRIMARY) notify - 'None'.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.906 gpbs[7030] Owning program failed to convert data.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.907 gpbs[7030] SelectionNotify.
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.907 gpbs[7030] <PasteboardObject: 0x9a0ce50> set data for 
> type 'NSStringPboardType' version 1
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.907 gpbs[7030] set data for 0x9a0b9c8
> 2011-01-30 22:05:47.907 gpbs[7030] get data for 0x9a0b9c8
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Philippe