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

[Philippe Roussel]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:56:45AM +0100, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 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?

I guess I'll have to trace the execution to answer that. But before
that I have to mention that this message appears multiple times in
this log and I only had one timeout all this time. Are you sure this
is related ?

[snip]

> > 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
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