Bug 339325

Summary:	Gnome: More Apps, Control Center & Logout hang
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Roman Snitko <roman>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	David, hpj
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	ps aux after logout failure/hang

Description Roman Snitko 2007-11-05 20:08:21 UTC

Since I switched from KDE to GNOME started experiencing weird problem: when accessing main menu and clicking on "More applications" or "Control Center" or trying to Logout before showing the window it hangs for about 15 seconds. After some time there's even bigger problem with loggin out, as I can only end session by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace: if I try to logout with main menu it simply doesn't show any window at all. Though the desktop is still accessible and all apps continue to work. It's just that the logout window doesn't even appear, so I can't even initiate the logout process.

At the same time, there's no such problem in KDE, compiz works fast, all other apps work fast and just fine.

Comment 1 Mark Gordon 2007-11-05 21:17:59 UTC

The difficulty in logging out makes that much of this bug look like a possible duplicate of Bug 331577.  I'm not sure that explains the other symptoms, though.

Comment 2 Roman Snitko 2007-11-06 11:39:54 UTC

Well, I read 331577 and I can tell I have no problem with launching banshee and I get no error messages. The options on the logout dialog are not grayed out, they are enabled.

What's interesting, this slow downing of mine starts not exactly after I login, but, say, 10-15 minutes later. If I logout right after I logged in - it works fine.

I could post video of the described behavior. Is it necessary?

Comment 3 Mark Gordon 2007-11-06 16:51:39 UTC

I don't think that's necessary.  The root cause probably isn't terribly visible.

Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2007-11-06 17:02:58 UTC

Run 'top' when the slow down starts and see if there is a processing eating a lot of CPU.

Comment 5 David Walker 2007-11-16 04:55:48 UTC

FYI, I've had similar symptoms.  What seems to make it pretty reproducible is to login, then logout (which will work OK) and login again.  After that, logouts will behave as described by Roman.  I'll check top next time it happens, but I don't think it will show anything.  I regularly run the System Monitor applet, and it doesn't show any activity.

Comment 6 David Walker 2007-11-16 06:04:05 UTC

Sorry, top didn't show anything running.  I'll attach the output of 'ps aux'.

Comment 7 David Walker 2007-11-16 06:05:38 UTC

Created attachment 183633 [details]
ps aux after logout failure/hang

Comment 8 Hans Petter Jansson 2007-11-19 01:53:20 UTC

That process list shows that you have a bonobo-activation-server that's much older than your session, symptomatic of bug 331577. I really think this is a duplicate.

Comment 9 Roman Snitko 2007-11-19 02:07:10 UTC

Ok, I checked my 'top' too when the bug appeared, it didn't show any CPU eating process. However, for now the bug shows up infrequently. I'll see if there's any other symptoms or peculiarities that can reveal the nature of the thing happening, so maybe it would be useful to keep the ticket opened, so that other users could respond, if they find the same bug.

As for bug 331577, I don't have any problems with banshee. So, probably, my report isn't a duplicate.

Comment 10 David Walker 2007-11-19 21:05:39 UTC

Well, I just tried Banshee and F-Spot, and I did have problems, so I guess my problem is a duplicate, and I'll watch for the fix promised in bug 331577.

Comment 11 Magnus Boman 2007-11-19 21:08:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 331577 ***