Problem with gnome-shell restart in F16: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly

[Joachim Backes]

On 10/26/2011 09:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:17 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> having a weird problem in F16 with gnome-shell: Restarting the
>> gnome-shell with "alt+f2" and "r" consecutively at most twice, the gnome
>> session dies with the *well known F16 message*:
>>
>> "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system
>> can't recover. Please log out and try again".
> 
> Well, that's not weird.

Even if there is a time lag of about 30 sec between the 2 restarts?

> That's just...what the fail whale does. If any
> critical bit of GNOME looks like it's crashing repeatedly, it pops up.
> So, yeah, if you spam restarts of Shell, you'll trigger the fail whale.


-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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