Bug#526950: [gnome-panel] gnome-panel freezes on login

[Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.]

I found what was hanging it up.  I had an application called Global
Storage Architecture Login Gui that opens in the Notification Area of
the panel.  GSA is used at IBM.  I thought I had removed it to see if
that was causing a problem  but the removal didn't complete due to a
dpkg failure with the python-ropemacs package not installing correctly.
To see if that was causing the problem, when gnome hung up I went to the
console and looked for what was running.  I saw it running and killed
it.  That unfroze gnome.  I then looked in the bug reports for
python-ropemacs to see how to fix that so that the GSA package would
finishing uninstalling.  Once I got rid of the GSA package, gnome didn't
hang up on login.  I don't know why all of the sudden it started hanging
up gnome because I had been running it for probably over a year.  Now to
find out what is wrong with the GSA application.

Thanks

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 21:26 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 04 mai 2009 à 12:37 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. a écrit :
> > Starting last week, my gnome-panel would freeze on login.  The panel would paint part of the 
> > applets then freeze.  I could still move the mouse around the screen but nothing worked and gnome is 
> > frozen.  I can go to another session with ctrl-alt-f1 and see that gnome panel is running.  I run squeeze.
> > I tried reverting to VESA video to see if that made any difference but it didn't help.  I had been running network-manager 7.1
> > from sid so I reverted that to see if that helped but it didn't.  I tried removing all applets but it didn't help.  I removed my 
> > .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, and .gnome2 but that didn't help either.  I tried updating to gnome-panel from sid but that didn't help.
> 
> When switching to the console, what is the list of running processes for
> the user and their state? Does killing gnome-panel and/or gvfs help?
> 
> Is your loopback interface (lo) correctly configured? What is the output
> of "/sbin/route -n" ?
>