From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 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.
gnome-session _used_ to do this. Someone must have busted it. Filed also as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91280
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.