Description of problem: bonobo-activation-server processes persist after users log out of the GNOME desktop. How reproducible: not *every* time, but most times I try. Steps to Reproduce: 1. log in 2. log out Actual results: bonobo-activation-server persists as the only process belonging to my user. Upon logging back in, all the GNOME panel applets refuse to start and present me with dialogs offering to delete the applet Expected results: bonobo-activation-server to die along with everything else Additional info: I know there are incidences of similar behaviour involving evolution-data-server. To be clear, this is happening even when no e-d-s process has been running during the session.
I can confirm the same bug after upgrading to F8. There are numerous reports out there linking the issue of Gnome panel applets refusing to start, but I have found that killing bonobo-activation-server and relogging gets the applets to start up normally again.
This is still happening on Fedora 8. For completeness, I've been testing on the same machines as Graham has. We are using a network of computers with NFS homedirs and LDAP auth. The bonobo-activation-server processes are still hanging around after logout and recent testing has shown it to be the reason why the second person to log in and insert a usb storage device will see an error rather than it being automounted until the first user's bonobo-activation-server processes have been killed. We have full permissions on these systems and are eager to help solve this problem so feel free to use our access to such resources as your own testing resource. What further information would you need in order to track down this bug? Thanks
if bonobo-activation-server is hanging around, usually that means some other process is connected to it keeping it around. Are you sure its the only process hanging around? what's the output of ps -U andy -u andy -f where andy is the relevant username Also, can you strace bonobo-activation-server? something like: strace -s512 -p <pid of bonobo-activation-server here> and post the output? if you could install the libbonobo-devel package and get a backtrace by doing: gdb attach <pid of bonobo-activation-server> thread apply all backtrace full then that would be useful, too. One other bit that might be useful is the ouput of ls -l /proc/<pid of bonobo-activation-server/fd
Created attachment 263671 [details] backtrace from a still-running bonobo-activation-server process
(In reply to comment #3) > Are you sure its the only process hanging around? [chckens@uranium ~]$ ps -U chckens -u chckens -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD chckens 4565 1 0 16:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=17 chckens 4621 4619 0 16:05 ? 00:00:00 sshd: chckens@pts/1 chckens 4622 4621 0 16:05 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash chckens 4680 4622 0 16:06 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -U chckens -u chckens -f (obviously, the other three processes can be accounted for) > Also, can you strace bonobo-activation-server? [chckens@uranium ~]$ strace -s512 -p 4565 Process 4565 attached - interrupt to quit poll( (that's all it outputs in the ~15 minutes I had it running) > if you could install the libbonobo-devel package and get a backtrace by doing: > > gdb attach <pid of bonobo-activation-server> > thread apply all backtrace full output attached.
This bug is very old. It comes (at least) from Fedora 6. It is not present in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome 2.20.1) where you can login immediately after a logout. Even there you can do multiple concurrent logins.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Are you sure its the only process hanging around? > > [chckens@uranium ~]$ ps -U chckens -u chckens -f > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > chckens 4565 1 0 16:03 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=17 > chckens 4621 4619 0 16:05 ? 00:00:00 sshd: chckens@pts/1 > chckens 4622 4621 0 16:05 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash > chckens 4680 4622 0 16:06 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -U chckens -u chckens -f > > (obviously, the other three processes can be accounted for) > > > > Also, can you strace bonobo-activation-server? > > [chckens@uranium ~]$ strace -s512 -p 4565 > Process 4565 attached - interrupt to quit > poll( > > (that's all it outputs in the ~15 minutes I had it running) > > > > if you could install the libbonobo-devel package and get a backtrace by doing: > > > > gdb attach <pid of bonobo-activation-server> > > thread apply all backtrace full > > output attached. > > I have a similar setup and see the same thing as well. I don't just notice it with Fedora 8 ... it has existed on the past several versions of Fedora.
I agree with Jorgen Sanchez in comment 6: this bug is very old; b-a-s has been persisting after logout since at least FC6, if not earlier. I've finally resorted to adding logic to the end of Xclients to track the damn things down and reap them. Ray, is there any other information we can provide that would help you track this down? Would an strace of b-a-s from in the middle of a full session through session exit be useful?
The output of /usr/sbin/lsof -U (not as root) would be good. Also, a backtrace with more debuginfo would be helpful. Can you install glib2-debuginfo, ORBit2-debuginfo, libbonobo-debuginfo and then run: gdb attach <pid of bonobo-activation-server> thread apply all backtrace full when you're seeing the problem?
Created attachment 281491 [details] bonobo-activation-server backtrace with more debug symbols
hmm, so there is definitely nothing around to keep it alive. it's just sitting there in poll() not doing anything. i'll have to dig through the code to figure out why it could be doing that. I don't have time to do that right now though trying to get GDM usable again in rawhide. Moving to ASSIGNED, but I won't be looking in it anymore for some time. Adding to F9Target, but when I figure it out, i'll do an F8 update also.
I have read somewhere (but I really don't know if this is true) that bonobo-activation-server is not tied to sessions, so the described behavior (keeps running after logout) may be normal. The problem here is no other that the panel applets refuses to start, giving that nasty "OAFIID...." error messages (asking each one the user to delete it from the panel).
I disbelieve that bonobo-activation-server is not tied to sessions, for the simple reason that a new one is started for every session. (Ray's comment 11 also seems to indicate that bonobo-activation-server should exit after there are no other process around to keep it alive.)
James #13: Well it appears that gnome-session do bonobo requests and, as a consequence of that, b-a-s starts on every gnome login. That's why I said b-a-s is not tied to sessions.
The logout -> immediate relogin problem seems to be fixed on the latter libbonobo updates, but if you try login to same user on two concurrent sessions (i.e. one on the console, another via NX) all your panel applets refuses to start (on the latter session).
Actually not fixed.... again I note it's failing if I logout from a console session and immediately do a remote login via NX. Surely it's not an NX problem, cause that's not happening to my (other) Ubuntu 7.10 machine.
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This bug (or one remarkably similar) still seems to be present in f10, $ps aux | grep user user 9840 0.0 0.0 59392 264 ? S Jan20 0:01 gnome-panel user 9843 0.0 0.0 43760 192 ? Ssl Jan20 0:00 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=18 $last user user :0 Tue Jan 20 08:45 - 08:56 (00:10) This bug should probably be reopened against f10.
These bugs are probably the same issue: bug #123655 and bug #139999 Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534485