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#1 2012-06-23 17:28:49

cjpembo
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[CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

Gnome 3 has been hanging approx half the time I boot up.

I login via gdm.  dbus is loaded first.  I get my gnome wallpaper loaded - mouse cursor and keyboard both work - but the gnome desktop is non-responsive.  I cannot access menu items in the upper-left corner and the icons in the upper-right corner status area show that the network and possibly audio have not yet loaded.  I use dhcp via eth0.  I've tried both /etc/rc.d/network and /etc/rc.d/networkmanager - both give the same result - about 50% failure.  I'm not saying I don't get my ip address set: just that gnome is hung and not responding.  I can switch to a terminal and use the network.

When it boots fine, it is absolutely stable and fast.

Let me know which log files would be most useful and I'll post them.

And I will create a new user and try loging-in with that account to rule out a simple config error.  This account is about 8 months old - and worked flawlessly up until about a month ago.

Thanks

Last edited by cjpembo (2012-06-27 04:58:19)

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#2 2012-06-24 20:25:07

oboedad55
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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

cjpembo wrote:

Gnome 3 has been hanging approx half the time I boot up.

I login via gdm.  dbus is loaded first.  I get my gnome wallpaper loaded - mouse cursor and keyboard both work - but the gnome desktop is non-responsive.  I cannot access menu items in the upper-left corner and the icons in the upper-right corner status area show that the network and possibly audio have not yet loaded.  I use dhcp via eth0.  I've tried both /etc/rc.d/network and /etc/rc.d/networkmanager - both give the same result - about 50% failure.  I'm not saying I don't get my ip address set: just that gnome is hung and not responding.  I can switch to a terminal and use the network.

When it boots fine, it is absolutely stable and fast.

Let me know which log files would be most useful and I'll post them.

And I will create a new user and try loging-in with that account to rule out a simple config error.  This account is about 8 months old - and worked flawlessly up until about a month ago.

Thanks

Please post your daemons from /etc/rc.conf and which video card you have and which drivers.


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#3 2012-06-25 05:21:47

cjpembo
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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

Dual nVidia GeForce GTX 560
nVidia-ck driver version 302.17
Linux version 3.4.3-1-ck (x86_64)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus networkmanager gdm cupsd crond)

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#4 2012-06-25 05:28:57

headkase
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Registered: 2011-12-06
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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

Try putting gdm at the end of your DAEMONS array, after crond.

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#5 2012-06-25 07:30:32

nowahn
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From: elsewhere
Registered: 2008-12-05
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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

Hi,

Quite the same bug here (gnome3, network tray icon showing the network is not configured, but it is when I switch to ttys).
But there are some differences:

  • only something like 5% failure.

  • not starting gdm from the daemons array in rc.conf (starting Xorg from inittab instead)

  • Not the same hardware:

    • Intel integrated graphic card.

    • default linux kernel (3.4.4-1)

    • system installed 4 month ago, don't know whether the bug was present from the beginning.

I noticed that doing killall Xorg in a tty (as root) restart Xorg and it has always been working for me after that (except that it starts in tty8 instead of tty7).

Did you try top in a tty to see if something is hanging ? (I thought of it just after the last time it bugged, and I had no opportunity to try it since then.)

Last edited by nowahn (2012-06-25 07:32:07)


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#6 2012-06-25 21:19:32

cjpembo
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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

I have not changed anything yet... but the last 6 boots have been flawless.  I'm either on a roll of good luck or something got updated.  If I can get it to fail again, I'll start poking around more.  Several weeks of gnome misbehaving; I ask the question and it starts behaving again.  The gnome knows it's being watched - so it is behaving.  Tricksy little hobbits !

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#7 2012-06-27 04:57:45

cjpembo
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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

The issue seems to have vanished.  No problems at all in the past dozen+ boots.  Closed....

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#8 2012-06-27 07:45:23

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Re: [CLOSED] Gnome 3 hangs after login

cjpembo, please do not use the term "CLOSED" for a solved thread. This is reserved for threads set made read only by the mods.
See the Forum Etiquette
Pleases change the CLOSED mark into SOLVED as soon as possible.


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