I too am experiencing this with Pitbull enabled. When someone leaves or joins the raid, disconnects or reconnects I can get screen freezes of up to 30-40 seconds in extreme cases. Sometimes I also get screen freezes when leaving combat, but never when entering combat.
I only get this problem in 25 man raid groups.
The only enabled unit frames are:
Player
Player pet
Target
Target of Target
Focus
Focus Target
I haven't done any extended testing. Right now I am only using the preconfigured texts for unit name, health and mana. All other texts are disabled.
If I disable Pitbull via the addon menu on the character select screen the screen freezes disappear completely.
I had exactly the same problem described here. I fixed it by uninstalling Grid, deleting the Grid config files then reinstalling it. Since doing that, the problem has completely disappeared. I continue to use whatever is the latest version of Pitbull available.
I did this based on nothing other than intuition but it worked so I'm happy.
As I said in my previous post, I just deleted Grid, removed its config file, reinstalled Grid. Problem solved.
I have done the same and will report back here with a status report. Took me about two hours to get Grid back to the way I like it. But this fix might not be the issue for the rest of us at all. All the same I followed your advice and I'll let you guys know if it has any impact.
EDIT: I can confirm this has nothing to do with Grid, but indeed dogtags and/or Pitbull. I can reproduce the error in AV and it doesn't appear when I disable libDogTag-3.0 and the unit sublibrary. The Grid reset did nothing for me. Disabling Dogtag however made a couple of my addons not load (Pitbull, IB2, Parrot, Cowtip), so I guess they could be the culprits too, but I have my money on the Dogtags.
I backed my UI up to an april 17th version. Everything works fine from there, whatever is causing these freeze issues was updated after that.
When I get home from work I'll try out PitBull-r32866 which is from April 17th and see what happens (perhaps I need an older revison from a day or two before the 17th, but I'll have to check on that). Dogtag3 was last updated on April 17th, so I'll revert to something just before that as well. LibDogTag-3.0-r68630 should do fine for this.
Hoping we can track down this issue as fast as possible.
Ps. If anyone is at home on their gaming computer you could try this as well and give us a heads up already, so that we can either rule this out or not.
I disabled the following Text on my raid unit frames and the problem nearly vanished. What it does is add a row of dots to each frame that changes based on the status of their "big 5" buffs.
[(if (HasAura("Mark of the Wild") and (AuraDuration("Mark of the Wild") < 300)) or (HasAura("Gift of the Wild") and (AuraDuration("Gift of the Wild") < 300)) then
".":Yellow
elseif (HasAura("Mark of the Wild") or HasAura("Gift of the Wild")) then
".":Color("9933ff")
else
".":Red
end) (if (HasAura("Prayer of Fortitude") and (AuraDuration("Prayer of Fortitude") < 300)) or (HasAura("Power Word: Fortitude") and (AuraDuration("Power Word: Fortitude") < 300)) then
".":Yellow
elseif (HasAura("Power Word: Fortitude") or HasAura("Prayer of Fortitude")) then
".":White
else
".":Red
end) (if (HasAura("Arcane Brilliance") and (AuraDuration("Arcane Brilliance") < 300)) or (HasAura("Arcane Intellect") and (AuraDuration("Arcane Intellect") < 300)) then
".":Yellow
elseif (HasAura("Arcane Brilliance") or HasAura("Arcane Intellect")) then
".":Cyan
else
".":Red
end) (if (HasAura("Prayer of Spirit") and (AuraDuration("Prayer of Spirit") < 300)) or (HasAura("Divine Spirit") and (AuraDuration("Divine Spirit") < 300)) then
".":Yellow
elseif (HasAura("Prayer of Spirit") or HasAura("Divine Spirit")) then
".":Color("66FF66")
else
".":Red
end) (if (HasAura("Prayer of Shadow Protection") and (AuraDuration("Prayer of Shadow Protection") < 300)) or (HasAura("Shadow Protection") and (AuraDuration("Shadow Protection") < 300)) then
".":Yellow
elseif (HasAura("Prayer of Shadow Protection") or HasAura("Shadow Protection")) then
".":Color("CC99CC")
else
".":Red
end)]
I didn't get around to test the older revisions of pitbull/libdogtag, but I got a friend who's experiencing this problem with Grid installed and he's not using Pitbull. Could this have something to do with a change in the way some of these Unit frame addons handles player events like zoning, going offline, death, etc? I don't really know, but we can conclude that some people are experiencing this and some aren't, so it must be some sort of conflict between addons. Heck, I don't know, just trying to make sence of this mess..
My pitbull setup shows only player, target, targettarget and focus. I don't use complex dogtag
(yes, this is a bump ^^)
I only get this problem in 25 man raid groups.
The only enabled unit frames are:
I haven't done any extended testing. Right now I am only using the preconfigured texts for unit name, health and mana. All other texts are disabled.
If I disable Pitbull via the addon menu on the character select screen the screen freezes disappear completely.
i got the same problem the last times in raid. So
is there all addons using dogtags causing the problem ?
i would be happy if there is a quick way to solve this.
regards
rorwin
I did this based on nothing other than intuition but it worked so I'm happy.
I'll try the "re-install everything and delete the wtf files" approach and see how that goes.
Could it be as simple as that really?
Hehe, thats the hardest way to get rid of stuff for me, takes days to get the UI back in shape after purging WTF :/
I have done the same and will report back here with a status report. Took me about two hours to get Grid back to the way I like it. But this fix might not be the issue for the rest of us at all. All the same I followed your advice and I'll let you guys know if it has any impact.
EDIT: I can confirm this has nothing to do with Grid, but indeed dogtags and/or Pitbull. I can reproduce the error in AV and it doesn't appear when I disable libDogTag-3.0 and the unit sublibrary. The Grid reset did nothing for me. Disabling Dogtag however made a couple of my addons not load (Pitbull, IB2, Parrot, Cowtip), so I guess they could be the culprits too, but I have my money on the Dogtags.
I am not running grid, IB2, Parrot, Cowtip or any other addon that I know of useing dogtags.
When I get home from work I'll try out PitBull-r32866 which is from April 17th and see what happens (perhaps I need an older revison from a day or two before the 17th, but I'll have to check on that). Dogtag3 was last updated on April 17th, so I'll revert to something just before that as well. LibDogTag-3.0-r68630 should do fine for this.
Hoping we can track down this issue as fast as possible.
Ps. If anyone is at home on their gaming computer you could try this as well and give us a heads up already, so that we can either rule this out or not.
[(if (HasAura("Mark of the Wild") and (AuraDuration("Mark of the Wild") < 300)) or (HasAura("Gift of the Wild") and (AuraDuration("Gift of the Wild") < 300)) then ".":Yellow elseif (HasAura("Mark of the Wild") or HasAura("Gift of the Wild")) then ".":Color("9933ff") else ".":Red end) (if (HasAura("Prayer of Fortitude") and (AuraDuration("Prayer of Fortitude") < 300)) or (HasAura("Power Word: Fortitude") and (AuraDuration("Power Word: Fortitude") < 300)) then ".":Yellow elseif (HasAura("Power Word: Fortitude") or HasAura("Prayer of Fortitude")) then ".":White else ".":Red end) (if (HasAura("Arcane Brilliance") and (AuraDuration("Arcane Brilliance") < 300)) or (HasAura("Arcane Intellect") and (AuraDuration("Arcane Intellect") < 300)) then ".":Yellow elseif (HasAura("Arcane Brilliance") or HasAura("Arcane Intellect")) then ".":Cyan else ".":Red end) (if (HasAura("Prayer of Spirit") and (AuraDuration("Prayer of Spirit") < 300)) or (HasAura("Divine Spirit") and (AuraDuration("Divine Spirit") < 300)) then ".":Yellow elseif (HasAura("Prayer of Spirit") or HasAura("Divine Spirit")) then ".":Color("66FF66") else ".":Red end) (if (HasAura("Prayer of Shadow Protection") and (AuraDuration("Prayer of Shadow Protection") < 300)) or (HasAura("Shadow Protection") and (AuraDuration("Shadow Protection") < 300)) then ".":Yellow elseif (HasAura("Prayer of Shadow Protection") or HasAura("Shadow Protection")) then ".":Color("CC99CC") else ".":Red end)]It's definately either pitbull core or one of the libraries pitbull core uses. I've gone back to AG for the time being.