[csw-users] gnome session random hangs or freezes

[Jason Zhang]

Dennis:

I appreciate there is people knowing about this issue and still working
on it.

My situation is very like what you see in 
> 
>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/csw-gnome_005.jpg
> 

when I starts application from a gnome terminal, I can see following information just before thing gets frozen:
-----------------

Gtk_CRITICAL FILE gtkwidget.c line 2884: assertion GTK_IS_WIDGET(widget) Failed

Glib-GObject-CRITICAL FILE gobject.c line 1742: assertion G_IS_OBJECT(object) Failed.
-----------------

I don't know it is related or not, but more information is better.

BTW, I forgot to list my system information:

Sun Blade 100
Solaris 10 2006 June edition
512M memory

Best Regards
Jason Zhang

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 20:55 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Thank you for sending in a nice letter. I get emails and I see bug reports
> that often times just are full of screaming from people. It is nice to see
> someone that just says "this isn't working right .. any ideas why?"
> 
> I do a fair amount of testing with GNOME and other things :
> 
>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/csw-gnome_010.jpg
> 
> I have been seeing similar behavior from GNOME over the past few weeks and
> am trying to figure out what is the issue. I have to ssh into the test
> machine and kill off everything that belongs to my userid to get my desktop
> back. It seems to be one components that is the problem .. but it is very
> tough to isolate and debug.
> 
> In some cases .. everything seems to just work :
> 
>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/csw-gnome_006.jpg
> 
> In others I lose the ability to kill off a single window .. it hangs there
> with a frame but no way to kill it :
> 
>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/csw-gnome_005.jpg
> 
> The xterm is gone but the frame remains. Like stolen artwork.
> 
> Then things go back to working again :
> 
>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/csw-gnome_003.jpg
> 
> This is my desktop right now :
> 
>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/csw-gnome_014.jpg
> 
> I know that I have some CSW software in there that is not yet released
> because of testing. I have a newer GTK2 and a newer glib2 ( 2.14.4 ) and I
> have to go push some windows around and launch a pile of stuff to see if I
> can get into that mes again.
> 
> We hear you .. we do.
> 
> The trick is to work together to create this all encompassing monster called
> GNOME for any Solaris user from Solaris 8 upwards.
> 
> 
> -
> Dennis Clarke
> 
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