[openbox] Strange issue, x11 apps started by openbox, output problem.

[Piotr Karbowski]

On 01.03.2010 23:04, Dana Jansens wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:47:10AM EST, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57:47PM +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Piotr Karbowski <jabberuser at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> No luck, recompiled whole system (~800 packages) still the same issue
>>>>> with openbox. How can I debug it? gdb and fancy switches?
>>>>
>>>> If anyone interesed I did workaround, I use much gmrun (alt+f2) to
>>>> exec something, my openbox menu is empty. So I added wrapper to gmrun:
>>>>
>>>> % cat bin/gmrun
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>> exec /usr/bin/gmrun > /dev/null 2>&1
>>>>
>>>> and now, when I run for example psi from gmrun, it not abusing CPU. So
>>>> problem is that openbox have problem with handle output. I have latest
>>>> Xorg what can be found in gentoo ~arch, maybe there is problem?
>>>> Fluxbox amd Pekwm do not have any problems with it so it must be
>>>> openbox bug.
>>>
>>> It should work without this work-around in the latest version of Openbox, as we addressed this problem.  If you find it to be otherwise, please let us know.
>>
>> I emerged x11-wm/openbox-3.4.7.2, x11-wm/openbox-3.4.10 and
>> x11-wm/openbox-3.4.11. In all I found this issue. I am sure that some
>> time ago it was working so it must be something with openbox depends
>> on system deps. Even if I start "xinit /usr/bin/openbox" I still have
>> this output-block. Openbox --debug can easy print to tty1 but not apps
>> started by openbox.
> 
> Oh, sorry that's my bad.  It was a similar bug which we fixed, but not this.  I still did not find any way to reproduce this myself.  But I'm glad to see a workaround for you.

I think I found what was wrong. kernel linux headers, after upgrade from
2.6.29 to 2.6.32 this issue isn't there anymore, I was a few weeks ago
but now I see that openbox work ok. What you think about it? Could it be
linux-headers?