[26540] in Athena Bugs
9.4 linux hangs on activation-client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Aug 27 23:53:18 2005
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:22:07 -0400 (EDT)
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User hadron23 (Rui Wu) came by SIPB, unable to login on 9.4 linux
machines (we did not try Solaris). His session would hang after
printing 'Initializing settings...'.
Debugging (copying xsession to ~/.xsession and adding -x) indicated
that it was hanging in activation-client at line 187:
178
179 # This incantation causes gnome-settings-daemon to be run via
180 # Bonobo, such that we won't continue until the settings-daemon
181 # object has been initialized and all settings have been
182 # propagated. If we just naively run gnome-settings-daemon in the
183 # background, settings may not propagate before GNOME programs
184 # run. In particular, GNOME programs might render text before the
185 # Xft settings have been propagated, leading to incorrect font
186 # selection.
187 activation-client -s "iid == 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon'" > /dev/n
187 ull
188 endif
Removing the >/dev/null doesn't produce any useful output.
I moved aside his .gnome,.gnome2, and .gnome2_private directories.
I'm not sure where to look, but with his permission, I made a copy.
That's in /mit/readable/hadron23/submit/old.tar.gz.
--jhawk
