docky randomly freeze at starting

[Espanico]

When i start docky it randomly freezes; always with this few lines output.

[6205 (6205-reactivated-deactivatedaccount)]

This may cause weather docklet. Many times Docky freezes on GNOME startup when is fetching forecast. At least by me.
I must then kill the process and start Docky again..

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

This bug might be a dupe, but I dont have time to look it up.

Basically, Weather and GMail can cause Docky to freeze on startup. This is known. For most people, the freeze only happens about 1 in 5 starts, but that will vary by user. For me, the freezes actually havent happened in months but I think I am just lucky. ;-)

[Espanico (espanico-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, I only want to specify I don't have weather docklet active; what robert wrote is the truth (It happens about 1 in 5 starts).
I know that this bug is known but i preferred to report it hoping you will fix soon because of is a little annoying. :)

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Trust me when I say this bug affects the developers more than the users. We restart Docky *way* more often than the users. ;-)

Though as I said, personally I havent had a freeze in ... well, so long I honestly cant remember. Wish I knew why that was... but given the fact this bug is a race condition, it makes it highly unpredictable so if I am not having freezes someone out there is probably freezing up 80% of the time.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

I dont know about anyone else, but I have not had a freeze on startup since... well I dont even know, at least January sometime. It has been so long I literally cant recall the last time it locked on me.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Anyone else hit a *startup* freeze in the last month or so?

[David Rando (david-rando)]

Yep, having the startup crash almost daily on my laptop with Intel GMA4500 video card. The thing is: in my desktop computer, with a q9550 and a nvidia gtx 260, no crash on startup at all (never had one).

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Crash or freeze? Crash means Docky's executable is no longer running. Freeze means it is running but not responding (you must kill the program yourself).

[Espanico (espanico-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry if i answer only now (unfortunately also launchpad gave me problems), anyway i still have this problem; It freezes.

[Marco Milone (milozzy)]

It sometimes freezes for me too.

[Espanico (espanico-deactivatedaccount)]

Hoping being useful I have new informations for you. :)

[Espanico (espanico-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm not sure It's the same bug....

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Not the same bug. That bug almost looks like a bug in Mono... I am unsure. I might need you to file that upstream.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Can someone still getting *startup* FREEZES (meaning the Docky process is still running but not responding) please give us a trace? You do this by opening a terminal and doing

kill -SIGTERM <pid of Docky.exe>

This will then dump a trace onto the *original* terminal docky was launched from. If you didn't start Docky from a terminal, then this output probably will wind up in ~/.xsession-errors - no matter where it winds up please post that output here.

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