We have seen many reports about broken build and freezes which are experienced on Ubuntu 11.10. While the build fix was pretty simple, the freezes took us a bit more time to hunt them down.

The point is that MySQL Workbench relies on glib’s idle signals which are emitted when Gtk’s main event loop has nothing to do. In Ubuntu 11.10, for some reason, for certain types of windows we use, these idle signals are not emitted cause window drawing code constantly reschedules idle redraws.

The bug report which is related to the freezes and compilation problems is at http://bugs.mysql.com/62347

Here is a link to the patch: is http://bugs.mysql.com/file.php?id=17639