On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > On mer., 2011-02-09 at 10:54 -0500, Brandon Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On mar., 2011-02-08 at 18:56 -0500, Brandon Simmons wrote: >> >> As for the backtrace, I'll need some hints on how to do that. I >> >> re-built the 'xfce4-session' package with debugging symbols and >> >> attempted to get a backtrace of "xfce4-session-logout --suspend" per >> >> these instructions: >> >> >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace >> >> >> >> but I was instantly logged out of my session. I also tried to dump a >> >> backtrace to a file using this trick: >> > >> > xfce4-session-logout doesn't segfaults, it's xfce4-session. Try to >> > attach it using gdb -p $(pid xfce4-session). You should do it from a >> > console or from ssh since when it'll be killed the session might be >> > frozen. >> >> I had gdb running in a separate TTY with: >> >> $ gdb x-session-manager $(pidof x-session-manager) >> >> And when I ran in TTY 7 >> >> $ xfce4-session-logout --suspend >> >> I got the message "Failed to receive a reply from the session >> manager". > > I'd say this is because it was stuck in gdb on tty1. > >> However, after quitting gdb the system immediately suspended >> successfully (and when it came back up it went into suspend again, >> presumably because I had tried the suspend command above twice). > > As xfce4-session had segfaulted but not yet quitted (stuck in gdb) its > children weren't killed and in particular the suspend order was > correctly processed. At least that's how I see it. >> >> At this point suspend seems to be working normally for whatever >> reason. I'm sure it is unrelated to the debugging I just did, but I >> thought I would mention the process I went through, since I haven't >> done anything else with it in the meantime. > > Do you mean that it now works even without any gdb debugging?
Yes. Sorry to be unclear. >> >> One final thing to mention: when suspend stopped working, I was asked >> for my password when I tried to suspend from the GUI logout screen; >> this never happened before. After entering it I was logged out. > > That looks like a Consolekit/Policykit issue. >> >> Anyway thanks for the help in trying to resolve this. > > So what's the status right now? Seems to be working. I did a restart yesterday, and I assume it had been working since then, but I hadn't tested it again until trying to do the debugging today. Brandon > > Regards, > -- > Yves-Alexis > > _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
