sometimes sighup needed for gnome-shell

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Adam Jackson  wrote:
> On 11/18/11 9:44 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>
>> Sometimes (latest days at least one time a day), the gnome session
>> goes unusable: I'm able to move mouse, but when selecting a menu item
>> it is greyed but no drop down of its options appears, no alt-tab or
>> alt-f2 possibility....
>> Only way to come back to usable state is going into a console window
>> (Ctrl+Alt-F2), searching for gnome-shell process id and run
>>
>> kill -SIGHUP<pid>
>>
>> Then come back to X windows system session that has become usable
>> again (Ctrl+Alt+F2 and come back to X doesn't give any result if I
>> don't kill sighup gnome-shell)
>
> Sounds like a bug in gnome-shell, at first blush.
>
> If you debuginfo-install gnome-shell, attach with gdb instead of sending
> SIGHUP, and run 'thread apply all backtrace', what do you get?
>
> - ajax
>
Ok, I'm going to debug-info install and I will try and report next time...
stay tuned....