[Bug 1256961] Re: new glib (2.39.1) causes some indicators & nautilus to not load promptly

[Iain Lane]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 01:17:47PM -0000, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:
> Yes, it makes sense. Of course this is not proper fix, but at least
> session starts without delay.

Please, no. It'd be a workaround which might not even completely fix the
problem.

To fix the bug we need to find out why gnome-session isn't moving
through the phases. In my investigations so far I've found out that
neither upstart (turned it off; still happens), the indicators (removed
as much of them as I could find, exported INDICATOR_ALLOW_NO_WATCHERS;
still happens) are to blame, gnome panel or gnome-session (reverted to
the 13.10 version; still happens). Something holds up gnome-session
until it hits a timeout, at which point the session continues to load. 

Run gnome-session as gnome-session --debug and look at the log and
you'll see that.

I'd appreciate it if someone else could spend a bit of time on this too.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]

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Title:
  new glib (2.39.1) causes some indicators & nautilus to not load
  promptly

Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Test case:
  updated 14.04 install with glib (2.39.1) & default installed indicator-applet-complete
  Log into either flashback session
  indicators session, datetime & sound will not be present
  additionally  nautilus will have not been started (handling the Desktop), can be seen by absence of r. click on Desktop

  Wait 1-2 min, then the indicators will load & nautilus will have started
  (nautilus can be started prior to from places

  With previous glib (2.38+) none of this occurs

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-session-flashback (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-4.12-generic 3.12.1
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-4-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Dec  2 10:29:31 2013
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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