Bug 72018

Summary:	gnome-session will restart applications infinitely
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Daryll <daryll>
Component:	gnome-session	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature, MoveUpstream, Triaged
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	67218, 79579

Description Daryll 2002-08-20 19:04:22 UTC

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Description of problem:
Applications in gnome-session can be marked to be restarted. If those
applications have a problem and crash immediately, gnome-session will keep
restarting them repeatedly and there is no easy way to disable the behavior.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an app that crashes
2. Add it to the session with the restart flag

Actual Results:  The session manager will restart it repeatedly

Expected Results:  The session manager should notice that it is constantly
restarting an application and ask the user if he wants to disable that
application instead of trying to restart it. Perhaps this could be triggerred by
having the application start too many times in a fixed period of time.

Additional info:

I ran into this when I found the clock applet would crash the panel on my
ThinkPad A20p.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-20 19:22:26 UTC

gnome-session _used_ to do this. Someone must have busted it.

Filed also as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91280

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-08 05:10:26 UTC

Upstream bug report claims this does work. In any case, closing here.
May want to respond to Mark on the gnome.org bug, if it's still happening.