Bug#572440: gvfs: applications freeze on some tasks

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 05 mars 2010 à 08:59 +0100, Davide Prina a écrit :
> > If you launch a “dbus-monitor --system” process in a separate window,
> > before the lockup, what does it show?
> 
> at start with gnome freeze I have (I copied it on paper):
> 
> signal sender=org.freedesktop.dbus -> dest=(null destination) serial =
> <progressive number> path=/org/freedesktop/dbus;
> interface=org.freedesktop.dbus; member = nameownerchanged
>  string ":1.<progressive number>"
>  string ""
>  string ":1.<progressive number>"
> [...]
> 
> then I do
> # /etc/init.d/dbus stop

Of course you will get tons of errors when you restart dbus. The
interesting questions are :
      * which process is going in a loop?
      * what is it doing then (a gdb backtrace would be nice)?
      * what is happening on the system bus at that time?

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