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Bug 689760 - gnome-shell stalls on login
gnome-shell stalls on login
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 689749
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-12-06 07:20 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified: 2012-12-06 07:39 UTC
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Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2012-12-06 07:20:21 UTC 
Bug 689304 introduced a regression -- on my system, gnome-shell stalls during login.

The stall is always inside of poll() with xcb waiting for a reply from the X server but it happens in different contexts -- one example is from shell global 'get_pointer()'.

I bisected and traced the problem down to this commit:

commit 92083eaf76fc7a5c2ecdd182896583ab5026ddf0
Author: Florian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 29 18:20:43 2012 +0100

    sessionMode: Make loading of external modes asynchronous
    
    Blocking IO on startup is bad m'kay ...
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689304


If I revert that, the shell stops stalling on login.
Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2012-12-06 07:39:04 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 689749 ***