GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 158698
hanging on login
Last modified: 2007-05-09 19:47:39 UTC
Login - sometimes it hangs... More detail - including a helpful patch here: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=69701
Michael, This is great! You cross referenced to http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=69701 which cannot be accessed. What good is that :( [I have created an account on bugzilla.ximian.com, still can't read this bug] -Ghee
Apologies - I fixed that now; I wondered where this bug had gone, I couldn't see it before.
Last comment from the ximian bug: ================== So - when I looked at this again in more detail, it seemed that it really was the esd forking that was screwing things up & dying when it caught a signal - that in turn blocking the gnome-settings-daemon startup, that in turn breaking the syncrhonous gnome-session activation of that - thus locking everything up. The esound daemon forking code is unbelievably broken - reading it, there are so many obvious bugs - it's unclear which one might be the problem ;-( We should really cut/paste a cut-down gspawn.c in there I think; or some known-good fork code I guess. ================== (I guess this was about gsm-sound.c?)
I don't see this happening (no report) and this is more a problem in esd than in gnome-session, so closing this bug.