After switching to activity mode (pressing MS-Windows key) the gnome shell hangs, i.e. I don't have a mouse pointer and key strokes are not recognized. I.e., I can't switch with CTL-ALT-F1 to alphanumeric console but I can log in via ssh. I see that there is one gnome-shell process: root@impala:/root(9)# ps uwax | grep gnome-shell | grep -v grep rose 28255 3.5 4.4 2261172 364760 ? SLl Jan06 322:03 /usr/bin/gnome-shell rose 28320 0.0 0.0 473584 2320 ? Sl Jan06 0:01 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server I try to kill this process: root@impala:/root(10)# kill 28255 root@impala:/root(11)# psgrep gnome-shell USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND rose 28255 3.5 4.4 2261172 364760 ? SLl Jan06 322:03 /usr/bin/gnome-shell rose 28320 0.0 0.0 473584 2320 ? Sl Jan06 0:01 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server root@impala:/root(11)# ps uwax | grep gnome-shell | grep -v grep USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND rose 28255 3.5 4.4 2261172 364760 ? SLl Jan06 322:03 /usr/bin/gnome-shell rose 28320 0.0 0.0 473584 2320 ? Sl Jan06 0:01 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server Ok, I try to kill gnome-shell with SIGKILL: root@impala:/root(12)# kill -9 28255 root@impala:/root(14)# ps -ef | grep gnome-shell rose 1273 28063 0 18:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-shell root 1622 17360 0 18:32 pts/18 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto gnome-shell rose 28320 1 0 Jan06 ? 00:00:01 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server OK, the process is killed and restarted. But nothing has changed graphical console. Key strokes are not accepted and I miss the mouse pointer. Can I do anything beside killing the whole gnome-session or gdm? Reproducible: Always
At the end of ~/.cache/gdm/session.log I find: ... "KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/gnome/apps/RootRlogin/TFH_Wildau/Laptop450.desktop, line 5: " "Invn. Use the iptables CT target to attaalid escape sequence "\""." "KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/gnome/apps/RootRlogin/TFH_Wildau/Laptop450.desktop, line 5: " "Invalid escape sequence "\""." "KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/gnome/apps/RootRlogin/TFH_Wildau/Laptop450.desktop, line 5: " "Invalid escape sequence "\""." gnome-session[28063]: WARNING: Detected that screensaver has left the bus gnome-session[28063]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 9 libc-client.so.1.0.0[7f7ffe1ec000+107 ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area ** Message: Starting applet secret agent because GNOME Shell disappeared ** (nm-applet:28268): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (25) Launch helper exited with ut nknown return code 1 gnome-session[28063]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal 9
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