[csw-users] gnome session random hangs or freezes

[Jason Zhang]

After upgraded using CSW unstable repository for my gnome desktop last
week, I found the gnome session became extremely unstable or is not
usable.

The whole session or screen freezes or hangs randomly after a period of
time: the screen is not responsible, the mouse can move around, but
click anything in screen has no response at all. I tried login remotely
to kill some processes such as nautilus, dbus-daemon, gnome-panel. But
that does not help at all, only kill gnome-session will restart X
session and re-enter the login screen.

This problem happens mostly when I close gnome applications, not every
time, but eventually 9 out of 10 will get into this situation. Looks
like gnome-session is waiting for an certain process to finish to go on
but the process never return.

Anybody has any suggestion or recommendation ? Any idea how to track
down where the problem exact is ? Right now, I can only blame
gnome-session, but it may caused by other processes.

If you also know a way to track down/debug/view log in this situation,
your help is appreciated

Best Regards
Jason Zhang