Re: Re: Gnome-session hangs at splash screen
I came accross this post because of a similar problem. Thought I should
post it here so someone else could find it.
I was in the process of doing a new install, so I was expecting a few
glitches...BUT I know this WILL happen to more people!.
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On boot my Gnome Spash screen was hanging.
Oddly enough "synaptic" was showing as being run at the bottom of the
splash screen. So I flipped over to a console (alt-F1) and did a "ps
ax". We saw that "gksu" was trying to run synaptic as root.
We killed the process, flipped back over to gnome (alt-F7) and
everything was fine. We rebooted as we expected it to happen again,
which it did.
So to get to the bottom of this we started looking around on the net and
noticed posts about editing .gconf etc...
BUT before doing anything drastic it dawned on us what was happening -
Here's what was going on:
"gksu" was jsut sitting there waiting for a root password to be entered!
It's dialog box was (probably) just hidden by the splash screen box.
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The remaining question is why? Why was it trying to run Synaptic at
startup?
Hmmm - Now I do recall at one point when loggin out/shutting down, that
the "Save current setup" checkbox was marked. AND - Synaptic was running
in another window!
At the time I ignored the message (something like) "Synaptic does not
support saving current state"
This is the problem: a user can accidentally "save current setup" which
includes a program that requires a dialog box to be filled in (such as
in the case of gaining root access.) Next time they log-in the dialog
will be hidden by the splash dialog box. Depending on how the program
behaves, they could get "stuck" there.
Regards,
Iain Galloway
engtech.ca
Engineering Technologies Canada Ltd.
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