Bug 85092 – gnome-system-tools 2.10 "hangs"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-03-13 07:40:04 UTC]

When I start one of the applications from the gnome-system-tools 2.10 its window opens but I cannot do anything in it. Once I close the window the process takes 99% of CPU time and needs to be killed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Desktop/Administration/Boot
2. Close the "Boot Manager Settings" window
3. boot-admin process takes 99% of CPU time




Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0,
2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.4-r2 [2.4 (#1, Mar 12 2005, 16:40:05)]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r6
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms
sign"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl
dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd flac font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod
mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl
nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib perl php png ppds python quicktime readline
samba sdl slang spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales xml2 xprint xv zlib linguas_de"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-03-13 07:56:17 UTC]

Created attachment 53338 [details]
GDB output

[Comment 2 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2005-03-24 07:00:11 UTC]

The problem is gone after I reinstalled my laptop from scratch.

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2005-03-26 08:22:38 UTC]

if it's not reproducable anymore, close it.

[Comment 4 alex f 2005-04-07 07:24:08 UTC]

I have the exact same problem. I'm not looking forward to rebuilding everything from scratch. Seems to be related to having had installed gnome-2.6 before? Please reopen.

emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 22 2005, 14:18:28)]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.9.5, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X X509 aac acpi alsa artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dhcp directfb divx4linux dmx dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal evo faad fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif glitz gmail gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl imap imlib ipv6 java jce jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mime mmap mmx mmx2 mng mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nntp noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly objc oggvorbis opengl pcre pdflib perl pic png pnp python quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba sdl skey softmmu speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts ucs2 unicode xml2 xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_de"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 5 alex f 2005-04-07 07:26:42 UTC]

Err. Having had gnome-2.8 installed, not 2.6 ...

[Comment 6 alex f 2005-04-23 04:33:50 UTC]

It is now more than 2 weeks ago that I asked this bug to be reopened. Please reopen.

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2005-04-24 14:35:59 UTC]

my random guess is that it goes nuts on the circular link in /boot.

What version of g-s-t are you using ? Try with the latest (even if it's p.masked) in the tree.

[Comment 8 alex f 2005-04-24 15:08:16 UTC]

 $ equery list gnome-system-tools
[ Searching for package 'gnome-system-tools' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.2.0 (0)

I've got the latest installed. This bug is especially about 1.2.0 since the 1.0.2 ebuild does not have that problem. It fails to bring up the dialog to enter the root password.

[Comment 9 John Nilsson 2005-04-24 16:29:52 UTC]

works fine if run as root

[Comment 10 alex f 2005-04-24 16:43:51 UTC]

Yes, it works for me as root as well. What I meant to say was: When run as a normal user it fails to bring up the dialog that asks for the root password and just hangs there until I kill it.