phantom yad clicks

[thepotatolover]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi-Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi-Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

Clicking any app to install it maxes out cpu and causes the os to lock up

Description

Newest version of pi apps on rpi 4 8gb newest rpi os 64bit

When i click any app to install it, it then causes the cpu to go to 100% and eventually the os locks up fully for no reason

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
OS architecture: 64-bit
Last updated Pi-Apps on: 04/04/2024
Latest Pi-Apps version: 04/05/2024
Kernel: aarch64 6.6.20+rpt-rpi-v8
Device model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4
SOC identifier: bcm2711
Cpu name: Cortex-A72
Ram size: 7.81 GB
Raspberry Pi OS image version: 2024-03-15
Language: en_US.UTF-8

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

YAD_XID IS 0X400003 (gets spammed)
Terminated (randomly shows)
sh: 1: echo: echo: I/O error (also randomly shows)

[github-actions]

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[Botspot]

Pi-Apps tries to run quickly, so when you are viewing the main top level of blue categories, the subcategories are being generated in the background. This involves reading a lot of files, so with a really slow SD card, you may encounter a brief freeze.

What kind of drive are you using to boot the Pi from? Have you benchmarked it with the agnostics tool? If not, please install agnostics with apt, then go to the start menu -> Accessories -> Raspberry Pi Diagnostics and follow the instructions.

[thepotatolover]

Pi-Apps tries to run quickly, so when you are viewing the main top level of blue categories, the subcategories are being generated in the background. This involves reading a lot of files, so with a really slow SD card, you may encounter a brief freeze.

What kind of drive are you using to boot the Pi from? Have you benchmarked it with the agnostics tool? If not, please install agnostics with apt, then go to the start menu -> Accessories -> Raspberry Pi Diagnostics and follow the instructions.

im booting from a sd card and the diag gives it a pass

[Botspot]

im booting from a sd card and the diag gives it a pass

OK try this command and see if it causes the 100% cpu issue:

~/pi-apps/preload yad ''

Please give it a few seconds. On my Pi4 it would usually only use some cpu in the first couple seconds.

[thepotatolover]

im booting from a sd card and the diag gives it a pass

OK try this command and see if it causes the 100% cpu issue:

~/pi-apps/preload yad ''

Please give it a few seconds. On my Pi4 it would usually only use some cpu in the first couple seconds.

alright would you like a video of the issue that is happening?

[thepotatolover]

I ran the command and it says Preload-daemon skipped; nothing was changed

[Botspot]

I ran the command and it says Preload-daemon skipped; nothing was changed

ok, so then if you open pi-apps again, does it still have the 100% cpu issue?

[thepotatolover]

I ran the command and it says Preload-daemon skipped; nothing was changed

ok, so then if you open pi-apps again, does it still have the 100% cpu issue?

yes

[thepotatolover]

[thepotatolover]

After the window opened at the end the entire rpi was locked up for about 4 minutes and it became responsive again and spammed the window open

piapps.lockingupssystem.mp4

[Botspot]

Yeah that is strange.

I would like to connect to your system using TeamViewer to have a look for myself. Please install Teamviewer with this command:

~/pi-apps/manage install TeamViewer

And then launch TeamViewer from Menu -> Internet, accept the terms and conditions, and then send me the ID and password in a private discord message to @Botspot.

[thepotatolover]

Fixed

dev connected tryed reproducing didnt work while dev was connected worked after a reboot and dev was disconnected after changing theme to another and changing it back the issue now doesnt seem to happen

[Botspot]

so basically, I could never reproduce it while connected to @thepotatolover with RustDesk, and after disconnecting, @thepotatolover could still not reproduce it until rebooting.
RustDesk connection seemed to fix it until a reboot.

@thepotatolover then switched to the xlunch theme, which worked fine, then switched back to yad-default where this issue no longer occurs.

@thepotatolover will re-open this issue if the issue returns. My theory is it's something graphics-related somehow causing run_user_selection to be run over and over, but this is unconfirmed.

[theofficialgman]

Yeah that is very strange. As indicated by the terminal logs yad is registering repeated clicks (calling run_user_selection) even when the user is (seemingly) only hovering.

That could be some strange filsystem corruption but I think it would need to be very specific. Maybe they are leaving out critical information like the presence of a rogue virtual mouse or touchscreen causing these phantom clicks.

Regardless its not a pi-apps issue itself.

[thepotatolover]

Tryed on 2 installs 1 on a usb ssd and an sd card and they both gave the same issue only had 1 keyboard and mouse that also works fine nothing else was plugged into usb except the mouse and keyboard and the usb ssd when i was booting from the ssd otherwise it would of just been the keyboard and mouse

[thepotatolover]

also they was both clean installs from the raspberry pi imager

[theofficialgman]

Can not reproduce on a fresh image

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
OS architecture: 64-bit
Last updated Pi-Apps on: 04/11/2024
Latest Pi-Apps version: 04/10/2024
Kernel: aarch64 6.6.20+rpt-rpi-v8
Device model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5
SOC identifier: bcm2711
Cpu name: Cortex-A72
Ram size: 3.79 GB
Raspberry Pi OS image version: 2024-03-15
Language: en_US.UTF-8

As I said before, this is not a pi-apps issue. This appears to be a hardware issue. Your video can only be simulated by spamming the mouse left click on the GUI at very high frequency (looks like 20 times per second in your video). Try using different peripherals (keyboard and mouse).

[thepotatolover]

i did same issue

[theofficialgman]

I don't really have any answer for you than swap out hardware one by one.
eg:
mouse
keyboard
storage
SBC (so if you have another pi, try it)
power supply

it is simply impossible to trigger multiple run_user_selection without selecting or double clicking on an entry in the yad list. So whatever hardware failure you have is causing many many additional mouse click actions.

[Botspot]

@thepotatolover were there ever any more updates to this? This is a very strange issue and you have been the only one to ever report it.

[theofficialgman]

Closing as unactionable.