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Bug 318584 - hang on the splash if the loopback interface is no correctly configured
hang on the splash if the loopback interface is no correctly configured
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-session
2.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-10-11 15:14 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2013-01-13 18:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-10-11 15:14:32 UTC 
If the "lo" interface is not correctly configured gnome-session hangs for some
time, that's a quite frequent issue for users.
Comment 1 Josselin Mouette 2006-12-13 11:51:08 UTC 
A proposed solution to this problem is to display a warning dialog very soon in the login process, explaining there is no loopback and how to fix it, and asking whether the user wants to login nevertheless. This should avoid all lockups that can happen in this case.
Comment 2 Sam Morris 2007-04-23 22:29:04 UTC 
Further to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/108761  both localhost and ip6-localhost should be pinged while determining whether the loopback interface is configured correctly.
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2007-05-09 20:20:32 UTC 
Did anybody look at why this is happening?
Comment 4 Lucas Rocha 2008-05-25 20:55:19 UTC 
Sebastien, is this still happening?
Comment 5 Sebastien Bacher 2008-05-28 09:33:25 UTC 
you want some testing on 2.23 I guess? I'm still running 2.22 for the moment, but it's easy enough to try, just logout, ifdown lo and try login-in again
Comment 6 Lucas Rocha 2008-05-31 20:51:42 UTC 
Yeah, testing on 2.23 would be nice. I tried it here and it seems that g-s 2.23.x doesn't hang on splash but on logout when loopback interface is down. Need to investigate that.
Comment 7 Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) 2008-08-22 15:25:25 UTC 
I have https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411682 on OpenSuse-11.0. 
I wonder if there is a mechanism (e.g. env-var) to get it logging what it starts.
Comment 8 Bastien Nocera 2013-01-13 18:34:25 UTC 
This shouldn't be a problem anymore. If the problem still occurs, please reopen after testing with GNOME 3.6 or newer.