Jaunty UNR - Wait cursor stays on for several minutes

[Tom Halchuk]

Build Version:9.04 20020203 Date:20090203
Kernal 2.6.28-6-generic

Environment used for testing:
UNR daily build 20090203 i386

Summary: When Ubuntu UNR comes up after being loaded the busy icon stays on.

The busy icon stayed active as I opened and closed applications

top command shows these processes running
dbus-daemon
nautilus
Xorg
x-session-manag

The nautilus , dbus-daemon and Xorg process keep swapping cpu usage in a range of 11-6%

I went into a terminal and typed ps -ef. The launcher process was very active. When I quit the terminal the pointer cursor finally appeared.

[Tom Halchuk (tomhal)]

dmesg output

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

This appears to be a startup notification issue: specifically something in the session claims to support startup notification, but isn't reporting successful startup. Starting *any* application at this point should make the icon go away. A proper solution involves investigation of each application started in the session, to determine if it claims to support startup notification and whether it actually does.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

This issue is caused by Nautilus afacit.

I've disabled every autostart program and the issue still occurred. Then, removing nautilus from gconf (for gnome-session) stopped this issue from occuring.

I believe it is because nautilus exits after starting up as it doesn't need to draw the desktop so quits without completing it's startup notification.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

With the latest gconf-defaults, which remove nautilus from the default UNR session, this problem does not occur. It would still be nice to patch nautilus to always call startup_complete, though.

[w1zard (pacehead)]

This is also afflicting me with today's daily build (of the USB installer image).

Should this have been fixed in the latest version?

What exact steps should I take to resolve this issue, i.e. to remove nautilus from the default UNR session?

[Brian Chidester (brianchidester)]

No longer happens in current builds.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That's quite old; report with newer active version if needed