When I start a Gnomeapp like gedit,meld or gnome-terminal it hangs. It doesn't crash but i can't do anything if i press a key the app does nothing for 30sec to xx minutes.
Additional information: I am using Fedora Core 2. Someone told me that this bug might be fixed in 4.0.6 so i upgraded, but unfortunately it didn't fix it.
Odd because: 1) xfce ships with FC2, I guess someone would have notice :) 2) I, like many others, am using gnome apps (from gnome 2.2 to gnome 2.6) w/out any problem What does a strace on the process give? 1) determine the PID of the process hanging 2) do a "strace -p #pid" 3) That should tell you what the process is waiting for
I get this errormessages when starting it form a terminal: --------------------------------------------------------------------- * (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. ** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. ** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. ** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. ** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. ** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. ** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found. --------------------------------------------------------------------- strace doesn't show anything that hangs
Did you try to post on some gnome user list, or even Fedora lists? It doesn't look like a bug with xfce. edited on: 08-05 08:27
But the Apps are working in kde,gnome,fvwm2,enlightenment and icewm. the problem is only in xfce
Do you have the same warning messages with other environments? I'm sorry, I need some better caracterization from your part.
No. I only get this warnings in xfce. but only with gnome apps gtk apps that doesn't require gnome are working fine (Firefox,rox,thunderbird). I have tried to start at-spi-registryd in xfce (because its causing the warings) but it don't start. #:/usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd ** Message: Could not complete key grab: grab already in use.
I doubt at-spi-registryd is the cause, and the grab failed is definitely not a problem.
what else can be the causing this?
I do not know, I don't understand why it works for everybody else but you, I don't understand why those apps don't map, and why strace doesn't show any hang in the process. - Do you use a standard FC2 install? - Did you upgrade to some pre-released gnome version (2.7.x)? - Did you try to modify the icon theme, from the xfce ui setting? - Can you to kill the mcs manager (killall xfce-mcs-manager) and relaunch one of the gnome app that hangs?
1: yes (i have upgraded to 4.0.6 from rawhide but it did'nt fix the bug) 2: no 3: doesn't help 4: doesn't help I tried as a different user and everything worked fine. Then i deleted the .xfce4 directory form my home dir, but it doesn't solve the problem. why?
After playing around with the gnome settings the apps works fine with my userprofile.
You mean the bug is gone after you played with gnome settings? Could you give us an idea of what setting, for the record?
I have deaktivated everything in gnome-at-properties
Seems to have fixed itself...
No similar reports and this one is solved by the reporter.
Moving invalid bugs to the /dev/null product.