Bug#529249: gnome-session: Blocks two minutes when starting session with awesome

[Raphael Hertzog]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: normal

I have set:
rhertzog at rivendell:~$ cat .gnomerc 
export WINDOW_MANAGER=awesome

Whenever I start a Gnome session, it starts the first few applications
and then stays stalled for 2 minutes and then starts the remaining
applications. The panel and nautilus are immediately started as is the
window manager, but then the rest of the applications have to wait some
sort of timeout before being started.

stracing gnome-session/x-session-manager during the block gives:
8270  09:59:18 read(18,  <unfinished ...>
8092  09:59:18 restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>) = 0
8092  09:59:57 gettimeofday({1242633597, 865159}, NULL) = 0
8092  09:59:57 pipe([26, 27])           = 0
8092  09:59:57 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xf6d68798) = 8712
8092  09:59:57 close(27)                = 0
(the rest goes on normally)

8270/8092 are 2 threads of gnome-session.

I have the same behaviour with a completely new session (i.e. after having
moved .gnome2/session out of the way).

If the problem is somehow related to awesome not being session-aware, then
feel free to reassign to awesome.

Cheers,
 Raphael H.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gconf2                     2.26.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.24.0.1-5  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      2.24.1-3      daemon handling the GNOME session 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.26.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.1-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.9-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.14-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.80-4        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                2.26.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.20.1-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          2.26.1-1      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.26.0-1      The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.24.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.16.1-2      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.5-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.24.2-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                     2:1.1.0-2     X11 Session Management library
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-16      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.2.1-1     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.4-2     X11 authorisation library

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                     1.2.14-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gnome-panel                  2.24.3-1+b1 launcher and docking facility for 
ii  metacity                     1:2.24.0-2  A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  nautilus                     2.26.2-3    file manager and graphical shell f

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.24.2-2   GNOME user's guide

-- no debconf information

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Raphaël Hertzog

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