[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#766819: Bug#766819: cinnamon freezes for a minute or so, when opening images or text with gnome/gtk apps and when closing them later on

[Margarita Manterola]

Hi,
 
El Domingo 26 Octubre 2014 05:35 CET, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net> Ha escrito: 
> But first some further information:
> - iceweasel is not affected
> - evince is affected
> - when cinnamon starts it basically freezes during start for a while
> - it also happens sometimes when switching workspaces
> - it does not happen when with eog/etc. when started via plain X (after
> startx).

Could you also please try other desktop environments? GNOME would be the most interesting, followed by any other.

Also, since it seems to be related to afs, could explain your afs setup so that we can try to reproduce? Please try to keep it as simple as possible while it still would reproduce the problem.

It *might* be interesting to strace the program tha causes the freeze (e.g. gedit opening the textfile), although it's possible that this would lead nowhere. For example, with this command line you would see the activity generated by opening a gedit file, with timestamps (which might help if gedit is also blocked):

strace -o /tmp/gedit.strace -vttf gedit file

I suspect the blockage might be at the dbus level, but right now there's no real evidence and not having the setup to reproduce makes it very hard to do real debugging.

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Regards,
Marga