GNOME Shell freeze

[Mike Ruckman]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:19:30 +0100
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Go ahead and file a bug - this will help for tracking and the worst
case scenario is it will merely be marked as a duplicate. You've
already documented the steps to reproduce, so most of the work of
filing a bug is already done :)

// Mike
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