Bug 2222957

Summary:	If you don't start Gnome Boxes immediately after boot up, it hangs on startup.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruce Bigby <bbigby64>
Component:	gnome-boxes	Assignee:	Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	cfergeau, feborges, gnome-sig, marcandre.lureau
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Description Bruce Bigby 2023-07-14 15:24:47 UTC

After booting my system and logging into my account, if I don't launch Gnome Boxes and select and start a VM immediately, it will hang and not present a list of VMs.  

Also, if I exit a VM to return to the main Gnome Boxes window and allow the app to sit in that state for a prolonged period of time, and then I attempt to relaunch a VM, Gnome Boxes will hang. Basically, hang means that I see a twirling cursor.

To recover, I must reboot, login immediately after seeing the login screen, open Gnome Boxes immediately, and start a VM immediately. Otherwise, if I wait too long -- some indeterminate amount of time -- I see the hang again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot your computer.
2. Login to the Gnome desktop.
3. Wait about 10 minutes.
4. Now, open Gnome Boxes to see whether it presents the list of VMs.  It won't probably.
Actual Results:  
Gnome Boxes hangs with a twirling cursor.

Expected Results:  
Gnome Boxes should present my list of VMs and be able to start them successfully.

Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2023-07-17 10:57:42 UTC

This could be caused by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213660

Comment 2 Bruce Bigby 2023-07-24 03:05:36 UTC

I think that this issue might have been fixed.  I rebooted my computer about 23 hours ago, and after this long period of time, I was able to launch gnome-boxes, see my list of VMs, and start a VM successfully. No more twirling cursor -- at least not this time anyway.