Bug#652709: gnome-shell: hangs when going into activities, never returns

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Hi Norbert,

Josselin Mouette wrote (20 Dec 2011 09:59:57 GMT) :
> Le mardi 20 décembre 2011 à 17:33 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : 
>> Doing some long running task (converting images to smaller size,
>> several thousands), suddenly everything stopped. I killed phatch
>> (the converter program) and went into activities to restart it.
>> Alas, going there, typing "phat" it showed up, so I clicked onto 
>> it and that was the end. gnome-shell did not react to *anything*
>> anymore. No kbd, no mouse, nothing. I could still switch 
>> between console and X, I could still use the console without 
>> any problem, but gnome-shell decided to go into solipsistic mode
>> and didn't interact with anyone.
>> 
>> I tried from the console to send gnome-shell some signals to wake
>> up, but also these were rejected. When I killed the gnome shell
>> with kill -9, it restarted for a short time, but stopped again.

> If this happens again, please try to obtain a backtrace from the
> locked-up gnome-shell process. I’m not sure it’s enough because the
> deadlock could be in the JS code, but that would be a good start.

This bug is now almost 4 years old. Can you still reproduce it on
current Debian?

Cheers,
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