GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 676163
Empathy causes the shell to freeze completely
Last modified: 2012-05-31 10:04:15 UTC
Since empathy uses the new menu goodies (bug #667619), gnome-shell randomly freeze. I did not understood when it happens, but it is related to opening/closing empathy's window and its menu. When gnome-shell, I attached to its pid in a ctr-alt-f1 terminal, and got that backtrace:
+ Trace 230229
I had to "kill -9" gnome-shell's process to have it respawn.
This is with gnome-shell 3.4.1-0ubuntu2
- Does it freeze in an infinite loop, or idle? - Can run it from the terminal as --replace before reproducing the bug so you can call gjs_dump_stack() from gdb (this dumps to stderr) (http://fishsoup.net/tmp/xenv.sh is what I use so I can '. xenv.sh' from a VT and then run gnome-shell --replace)
Looks like it's settings a keep-alive based on a toggle ref. Looks like normal operation to me.
This is a probably a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676447 , which is newer but has patches.
Yeah that seems to fix it. Thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 676447 ***