[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#747340: Bug#747340: xfce4-taskmanager freezes on armhf architecture

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2014-05-07 at 18:22 +0200, Moritz Strohm wrote:
> When I start xfce4-taskmanager it shows a blank process list for about
> 3
> seconds.
> After that the process list is shown with some unusual characters
> after the
> process names.
> These characters look like a box with two diagonal lines in it.
> 
> Immediately after the process list is shown xfce4-taskmanager freezes
> and produces nearly 100% load on one of the CPU cores.
> I checked that with the top command in the shell.
> xfce4-taskmanger can only be shut down by the kill command (or xkill).
> 
> 
> When xfce4-taskmanager is started from the shell I can see about 30
> lines of
> messages,
> all with the same text:
> 
> (xfce4-taskmanager:5419): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string
> passed to
> pango_layout_set_text()

Can you try to get a backtrace with gdb or strace it to see what
happens? You'll have to do most of the work yourself here, we dont have
an harmhf box handy for that…

Regards,

Yves-Alexis
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