Bug 613704
| Summary: | Metacity doesn't restart when it dies or is killed | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | jmccann |
| Component: | metacity | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | cschalle, syeghiay, tpelka |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-08-02 22:17:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
jmccann
2010-07-12 15:48:14 UTC
The behavior of Metacity is that it: - Restarts if it dies abnormally - SEGV, KILL, etc - Does not restart if killed with signals it catches like TERM or PIPE This seems like a reasonable behavior - why would you kill metacity with TERM if you wanted it to start immediately? Testing with metacity-2.28.0-15.el6 2.28.0-18.el6: killall -SEGV metacity # restarts killall -KILL metacity # restarts killall -TERM metacity # does not restart Note that there is a bug in gnome-session (not metacity) that means that metacity doesn't restart unless it was started by gnome-session (either at login or as a restart after crashing). That means in particular that after metacity does not restart in the above sequence, if you start it manually from a terminal, it will never restart until you log out and log back in. This would also come up if you switched to compiz using desktop-effects and switched back. I filed this upstream as: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625881 But I don't think this gnome-session bug is a critical bug for RHEL: - Switching window managers isn't the normal case - almost all the time metacity will have been started by gnome-session and will properly restart. - Metacity isn't supposed to crash in the first place! The restart code is just there as a backup safety measure. Closing this as NOTABUG, since the Metacity behavior is as intended and the gnome-session bug is separate. |