Ubuntu
gnome-session package

gnome session hangs

Bug #94285 reported by Tom Haddon
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gnome-session
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gnome-session (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm running Feisty, and have just come across an issue where I can't log into gnome.

I get the following in my .xsession-errors:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "mthaddon"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/rhapsody:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17982

I get a grey box in the top left of the screen while the gnome splash screen comes up, but it doesn't show any of the icons you see on a normal startup, and it never progresses (I've waited over 15 mins).

If I change to a virtual terminal, I notice that the there are thousands of defunct xrdb processes and the parent process that seems to be gnome-settings-manager IIRC. It seems to just keep creating more of these processes until it runs out of file descriptors.

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Tom Haddon (mthaddon) wrote :

Not a bug - see comment in upstream bug report.

Changed in gnome-session:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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D B (eburner) wrote :

Still a bug for me.

#copy of my comment from b.g.o

This still happens to me even after doing a rm -rf ~/.* in Ubuntu Feisty.

Upon editing my /etc/defaults/tmpfs, I find that my SHM was not set at all. I
changed it to 400, restarted my PC and found the same problems.

My ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is non-existent, but I'm using Human themes and all the
default Ubuntu fonts.

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Steffen Röcker (sroecker) wrote :

I had the same problem until I found that thread: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/79023/?highlight=gnomesession

ESD is the problem.
I logged into a safe xterm session, started esd manually and then gnome-session.
After I disabled esd everything worked again.

Shortly before I wanted to try pulseaudio, maybe that was the cause.
Stracing gnome-session showed me, that it wanted to make a connection to localhost:16001 and hanged there forever.

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