Restart dialog occasionally comes up with infinite (or extremely large) height

[anevilyak]

Probably once in 20 or so boots of Haiku, the restart dialog has a near-infinite height for some reason.

[bonefish]

I've also seen the Terminal window opening with only a few pixels height and huge width. Smells like an initialization race condition.

[anevilyak]

You mean the terminal that's brought up on startup, or any random Terminal? I haven't observed that as of yet. And init race was my thought exactly, as the restart dialog appears to be created on boot and then just Show/Hidden from there instead of being recreated.

[bipolar]

I've noticed the Media preflet become exceptionally wide (something that felt like 10000 pixels). Don't know if this is related, but as Ingo mentioned the Terminal...

[diver]

Replying to bonefish:

I've also seen the Terminal window opening with only a few pixels height and huge width. Smells like an initialization race condition.

Yeah. I saw this too several times, last time it was 2 days ago. It was when i started several times Terminal from LaunchBox.

[mmlr]

FWIW I'll attach a picture containing a broken Terminal and a broken restart dialog I've encountered at some random time. Maybe it's related to this and someone might get a clue based on a picture?

[mmlr]

Contains two screenshot parts of a broken Terminal and a broken restart dialog

[jackburton]

I think this is the same problem reported in #502. Could be that the Portlink gets full and doesn't send/receive some data in some cases ? See also r23554. BTW could we call debugger() if portlink is full and start dropping some data ?

[axeld]

From the looks of it, I would think the problems are based on the font sizes the application retrieves - at least it looks like all interface elements are there which would be very unlikely if there was something wrong with the PortLink.

[anevilyak]

For what it's worth, the behavior seen in mmlr's screenshots seems to be a somewhat different case from what I ran into that caused me to initially open this bug...I was never able to drag that window far enough to even find the buttons.

[bonefish]

Should be fixed in r26192.