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lardon

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[Solved] Gnome Shell hangs when starting applications

I'm trying to run Gnome 3 with X (I disabled wayland for gdm as well.) I can log in all right, but when starting an application (terminal, firefox), the system will sometimes hang for several minutes in the middle of the animation. Gnome-shell appears to be stuck doing nothing and does not respond to signal 15 (killing it with SIGKILL sometimes fixes the problem).

I found a few suspicious logs (journalctl), but I don't know if they're related:

tings-daemon:580): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Error setting property 'PowerSaveMode' on interface org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
...
systemd-logind: got pause for 13:77

There is nothing in dmesg.

Any insights?

EDIT: See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197383 for a workaround

Last edited by lardon (2015-05-28 06:27:22)

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