GNOME Shell freeze

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:06:15 +0100, Noah Menzi wrote:

> On 02.11.2013 13:14, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Is this reproducible by anyone?
> >
> > 1. open a single gnome-terminal
> > 2. log in as root via "su -"
> > 3. run gedit
> > 4. try to open gedit's Preferences via the application specific menu
> >    displayed on the top panel  (does it open? here, it doesn't)
> > 5. try to trigger the "Activities" hotspot with the mouse
> >
> > What happens? Here the desktop freezes completely. One can still move
> > the mouse, but that's all. Killing gedit and gnome-terminal doesn't
> > achieve anything. If killing more processes, eventually the "Oh no..."
> > screen appears, but upon trying to log back in at GDM, the desktop
> > doesn't load.
> I can reproduce this bug.
> On my Fedora 19 it doesn't open the application specific menu of gedit,
> but gnome doesn't freeze.
> On my Fedora 20 it doesn't open the application specific menu and the
> gnome desktop freezes completely. I can still move the mouse too.

Among the more than 700 gnome-shell bugs in Fedora bugzilla, I've found

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/956306

which exists since 2013-04-24 and is for Fedora 18. Since it has not been
responded to by a maintainer, what would be the normal procedure? To open
a new ticket for Fedora 20?