Bug#347973: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#347973: orage: mcs-manager dies after orange installation

[Rudy Godoy]

On 04/06/2006 at 11:02 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote...

> reassign #347973 xfce4-mcs-manager
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 16:15 -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> > Package: orage
> > Version: 4.3.1.22svn-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > xfce-mcs-manager dies after orage installation, causing themes and 
> > interface settings be lost. This also makes orage itself unable to
> > run after installation, one has to run xfce-mcs-manager again in
> > order to get things back normal.
> > 
> > I've experienced this on two different installations, both with
> > latest versions and no previous orage install.
> > I'll try to take a closer look on this. 
> > xfce-mcs-manager seems to die after installation so I'm not
> > sure if we can check this on install time.
> > 
> > -Rudy
> The problem was the way xfce-mcs-manager handler the SIGUSR1 used in
> orage (and other packages) postinst in order to refresh the list of
> available plugins.
> 
> It has been reported upstream, and should be fixed. Now xfce-mcs-manager
> should restart completely on SIGUSR1, and thus the gtk theme should
> briefly disappear, but not be killed.
> 
> Could you test xfce4-mcs-manager (4.3.90.1) and report failure or
> success during orage install ?

I've installed a fresh Xfce system, although I selected orage on the
installation. But when I installed additional plugins, like -netload,
-notes on SIGUSR1 gtk theme were gone and xfcs-mcs-manager too. 

One thig which is a bit serious if the fact the firefox gots completely
frozen once this happens, redenring it unable to use neither restart
it, one has to kill -9 and start again.
I believe we should handle this better, another idea could be to have a
firefox-extension installation likewise system when we tell the user
that the plugins will be available once they restart their session,
which is non-optimal but more "stable".

thanks,
Rudy

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