Gnome-panel freezes after waking up from suspend

[Ulrich Hobelmann]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Ubuntu 6.10, Gnome-panel 2.16.1.

When I suspend the system and wake up again, the panel doesn't respond anymore. It will accept one click (say, on one application shortcut), but other than provide visual feedback it will not react (i.e. not start anything) and thereafter not do anything at all anymore.

This can be "cured" by killing gnome-panel (which only works by already having a terminal window open BEFORE suspending, as the panel is unusable for starting programs after wake-up).

Sorry, can't test this with Feisty, as I can't install it on this machine (only in virtual machines, which don't support "suspend").

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. To debug by somebody getting it, might be a network bug. Does stopping bonobo-activation-server makes a difference?

[Ulrich Hobelmann (u-hobelmann)]

In what context should I stop bonobo-activation-server? Before suspending the computer? After waking up?

I don't know what it does, so I'm not sure when to do that, sorry...

But I also suspect it to be a networking issue. That's probably the only thing that can break by freezing an application.

[Ulrich Hobelmann (u-hobelmann)]

Well, it happened again, and after the panel froze I killed bonobo-activation-server. It didn't do anything, though; the panel still was dead (as was metacity, by the way!). Also, since it's not part of the session config, the bonobo server did not restart, either.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not due to it then, does "ping localhost" work correctly?

[Ulrich Hobelmann (u-hobelmann)]

During normal system operation, of course.

I'm not sure how it is when wake-from-suspend freezes the applications, but it can't really be a system problem (like ping, which would be unrelated to the session). After all, restarting X (ctrl-alt-bs) and logging in again works just fine, and all apps work again.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I can't reproduce this, however the issue that you reported is one that should be reproducable with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Gutsy Gibbon. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Ulrich Hobelmann (u-hobelmann)]

Actually, I've been using Feisty for a few months now, and it seems like the bug was fixed already.

(In general, Feisty Gnome seems much more polished and stable than the predecessor.)

[Ulrich Hobelmann (u-hobelmann)]

I'd like to close this as works-for-me, but it seems that option doesn't exist.

Not sure if "invalid" or "fix released" is appropriate.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing it as fixed since you were the one getting the issue and that works for you now