SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 7/12/10 12:42 PM, Bear wrote:
> hi,
> Yes, I got the same result. I patched my consolekit and nothing change.

Did you actually reinstall consolekit, and reboot?  Console-kit-daemon
doesn't actually restart after logout.

Joe

> 
> ------------------				 
> Bear
> 2010-07-13
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> From:Kevin Oberman
> Send Date:2010-07-12 21:36:34
> To:Joe Marcus Clarke
> CC:FreeBSD GNOME Users
> Subject:Re: SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues
> 
>> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:39:48 -0400
>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>>
>> Okay, I have been spending time trying to recreate the problems people
>> have been reporting with GNOME.  The problems are:
>>
>> * polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 crashes at startup
>> * gnome-panel takes too long to start
>> * Workspace Switcher does not work
>>
>> Sadly, I was unable to recreate what I would consider any problems.  I
>> tested the following configurations:
>>
>> * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from July 4 with ports from July 4
>> * FreeBSD i386 -CURRENT from July 4 with ports from July 4
>> * FreeBSD amd64 -CURRENT from July 5 with ports from July 5
>> * FreeBSD i386 RELENG_8 from June 17 with ports from June 18 (in VMWare
>> Fusion 3.0 on a Mac)
>>
>> I tested by starting GNOME from GDM and using startx.  My ~/.initrc has
>> simply this:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
>>
>> My locale is en_US.UTF-8.  I have procfs mounted, and I can perform:
>>
>> ping `localhost`
>>
>> Successfully.  I am not running ANY firewalls, and I have not enabled
>> any blackholes for TCP or UDP.
>>
>> When I run GNOME from startx, I do see a delay of about 10 seconds while
>> waiting for the panel to appear.  This is because gnome-panel is trying
>> to contact GDM to determine if shutdown/reboot support is enabled.  This
>> delay is expected in a startx configuration.
>>
>> Workspace Switcher has always worked for me.  I tried switching
>> workspaces with the keyboard shortcut and by clicking on the space in
>> the lower panel.  Both worked.  I was also able to bring up properties,
>> and add an additional workspace.
>>
>> I was able to see a problem with polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in
>> ONE instance.  A core was produced.  This problem seems to occur when
>> GDM switches the user to the logged in user.  I didn't notice any other
>> problems related to this, though.
>>
>> For those still seeing workspace switch problems, rebuild gnome-panel
>> with debugging symbols, then bind gdb to workspace switcher, and get a
>> backtrace when it appears to be hung up.  That's after making sure all
>> of the above is inline as much as possible with my test machines.
> 
> I patched and re-built consolekit, re-booted and re-started Gnome. I see
> no changes in behavior. I see a delay in the panel start and attempting
> to add to a panel results in a panel freeze for exactly 25 seconds
> during which the panel is completely frozen, including the portion of the
> popup menu showing most of the selected "Add to Panel..." item. After
> exactly 25 seconds, the panel re-draws properly and the Add to Panel
> window appears. (The individual applets DO update, though.)
> 
> There is no change in this from pre-patch system.
> 
> I do see one change which may or may not be a result of the patch. My
> netspeed applet crashes immediately and attempting to re-add it results
> in "The panel encountered a problem while loading
> "OAFIID:GNOME_NetspeedApplet"." 
> 
> Again, this may not be tied to the consolekit applet as it has been a
> bit unstable since I updated to 2.30, but it seems completely broken
> since the patch.


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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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