Bug#698097: gnome-shell: Still hangs, but 10 minutes or so after startup this time

Fri Feb 1 23:38:16 UTC 2013

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:07:15PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> As long as we can’t understand what is specific about your system that
> makes the GC deadlock most of the time, I don’t think we can make any
> progress.

It was gkrellm, I think.  I stopped autostarting it and am using a
system monitor gnome-shell plugin instead, and have had 0 hangs in 10
startups so far.

I might try running gkrellm after startup instead of autostarting it, to
see what happens then.