From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 15:05:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2E9106564A for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:05:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D058FC1C for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:05:39 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6CF5ZsC013655; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:05:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-64-102-220-169.cisco.com (dhcp-64-102-220-169.cisco.com [64.102.220.169]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6CF5ZNi015896; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:05:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C3B2F3F.4020702@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:05:35 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20100712133519.A5ACC1CC0D@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20100712133519.A5ACC1CC0D@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: SUMMARY: GNOME startup issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:05:40 -0000 On 7/12/10 9:35 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:39:48 -0400 >> From: Joe Marcus Clarke >> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@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. What does ck-list-sessions report? Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome