Bug 749225

Summary: Problem with gnome-shell restart in F16: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Backes <joachim.backes>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Joachim Backes 2011-10-26 14:20:56 UTC
Description of problem:
having a weird problem in F16 with gnome-shell: Restarting the
gnome-shell with "alt+f2" and "r" consecutively at most twice, the gnome
session dies with the well known F16 message:

"Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system
can't recover. Please log out and try again".

Found the following lines in /var/log/messages:

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Oct 26 16:13:14 eule gnome-session[1977]: WARNING: Application
'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activating via systemd: service
name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activating
via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activation via systemd failed
for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to
load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status
dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activation
via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit
dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activating via systemd: service
name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activating
via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activation via systemd failed
for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to
load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status
dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:15 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activation
via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit
dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:55 eule gnome-session[1977]: WARNING: App
'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activating via systemd: service
name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activating
via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activation via systemd failed
for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to
load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status
dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activation
via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit
dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activating via systemd: service
name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activating
via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus[933]: [system] Activation via systemd failed
for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to
load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status
dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:56 eule dbus-daemon[933]: dbus[933]: [system] Activation
via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit
dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See
system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.bluez.service' for details.
Oct 26 16:13:58 eule systemd-logind[904]: Removed session 4.
Oct 26 16:13:59 eule systemd-logind[904]: New session 6 of user gdm.
Oct 26 16:13:59 eule systemd-logind[904]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 to
/run/user/gdm/X11/display.
Oct 26 16:13:59 eule gnome-session[3022]: DEBUG(+): Enabling debugging
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login into a gnome session
2.Twice: alt+f2 and "r"
3.
  
Actual results:
See description

Expected results:
session resumes

Additional info:

Comment 1 freemarket 2012-01-29 01:35:11 UTC
I, too, am seeing this on a fresh install of FC16 on an MSI Megabook notebook (x86_64).

Can only run in run level 3 as gnome is unstable.
Exactly same oh no message if startx manually or attempt to start into graphical.target for run level 5.

What if you don't use bluetooth?

TIA,
Henry

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