[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#427393: Bug#427393: nm-applet freezes entire desktop in certain situation

[Michael Biebl]

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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> reassign 427393 network-manager-gnome
> thanks

>> If I click the nm-applet icon to display the list of wireless
>> networks, just as the daemon finishes negotiating a connection, it
>> will display the keyring-manager screen to allow or deny access to the
>> keyring for purposes of storing the wpa key.  When it does this with
>> the wireless scan screen also open, the entire desktop completely
>> freezes, background processes seems to continue to function, but mouse
>> and keyboard functions won't interact with the desktop.  Can't switch
>> to alternative workspaces, or stop the service, or click any window
>> inputs. 
>>
>> Switching to an alternate terminal, logging in, and killing the
>> network-manager process will unfreeze the desktop and allow nm-applet
>> to be reloaded.  I'm not sure if this is a bug with nm-applet, or
>> gnome-network-manager. 
> 

This bug report sounds very strange.

Matt, could you try to strace the nm-applet resp. NetworkManager process when
that happens. For bonus points, run the nm-applet process in a debugger and then
trigger the freeze, so we have a clue, where/when in the code that problem is
triggered.

Do you have anything suspicious in the log files: ~/.xsession-errors,
/var/log/messages,syslog,Xorg.log etc.

Cheers,
Michael

P.S: What system are you running (architecture, distro, versions of
network-manager and dependencies).
Please use reportbug next time, so this information is added automatically.
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