Bug#646726: gnome-settings-daemon: Crashes under load

[Roland Mas]

Michael Biebl, 2011-10-26 18:56:14 +0200 :

> Am 26.10.2011 16:59, schrieb Roland Mas:
>> Package: gnome-settings-daemon
>> Version: 3.0.3-3
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> gnome-settings-daemon seems to be very sensitive to load.  Admittedly my
>> PC is not that recent, but I should be able to run a VirtualBox
>> instance, do a bzr rebase and fetch my emails with offlineimap at the
>> same time without having my whole Gnome session disappear under me.  I
>> don't have hard facts linking the crash to the load, but the behaviour
>> seems consistent with that hypothesis:
>> 
>
> Is your machine also under memory pressure and maybe the OOM killer
> strikes?

  I don't think so.  At least, neither dmesg nor /var/log/kern.log
mention anything related to OOM, and the box isn't swapping particularly
heavily.

> If you follow the instructions at [1], due you get an .xsession-errors
> file with more clues?

  I followed the instructions (except "gnome-session-fallback --debug"
instead of "gnome-session --debug"), and now I seem to have a working
session.  I still get some of the flickering of the icons in the
notification area, but I haven't been able to crash the session all
morning and my Xchat keeps its pretty look, despite starting several of
the usual suspects at once.  I think I'll stick with what's working for
today, but I'll try again next week, both with and without --debug.

Roland.
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