Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Unable to login after session crash

Bug #70618 reported by Vincenzo Ciancia on 2006-11-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #49594: Bonobo-activation-server sometimes is not killed after session restart, leading to many unexpected problems. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Medium	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Sometimes it happens that my session crashes, and I cannot log in again unless I log in using a virtual console and kill all the stuck gnome programs. In my opinion, these programs should die with the X session because you can't take control of them again. The responsible process seems to be gconfd, but I am not sure, however it's not that much user friendly: a newbie will only be able to reboot his machine.

This is an issue that has affected gnome2 since its beginning, and that always gave me that "gnome is broken" feeling that is now more and more a thing of the past.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-11-23:

Thank you for your bug. What processus are hanging exactly? Could you get a backtrace of them? What version of Ubuntu do you use?

Changed in gnome-session:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote on 2007-01-17:

I was just looking for an existing bug report to report this exact problem. I appended my comment to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/49594. Summary: after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace I still see bonobo-activation-server, gconfd, a few panel applets, esd and evolution-data-server processes running.