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Created attachment 577986 [details] backtrace Description of problem: nm-connection-editor freezes at various occasions. This particular one is right after hitting "OK" when creating VPN connection Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.1-29.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: often Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a new vpn connection 2. 3. Actual results: nm-connection-editor freezes Expected results: Additional info:
The report itself is essentially a dupe of these: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574449 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767096 but it should be fixed in nm-c-e too, because g-k is a separate component and relying on it too much is against principles of robustness.
(In reply to comment #1) > but it should be fixed in nm-c-e too, because g-k is a separate component and > relying on it too much is against principles of robustness. NetworkManager should do gnome-keyring calls async at a first place.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > but it should be fixed in nm-c-e too, because g-k is a separate component and > > relying on it too much is against principles of robustness. > > NetworkManager should do gnome-keyring calls async at a first place. It should, and it does now with NM 0.9 and later due to a rewrite of those areas. Unfortunately it's a lot harder to make the functions async in the old code, and backporting doesn't work because it's been entirely rewritten. But here, while making the calls async would paper over things, the core problem is actually a bug in the gnome-keyring libraries that got fixed later than RHEL6. Even if we made the calls async we'd still have the keyring issue. IIRC this happened in Fedora for a while too, not just with NetworkManager. It eventually got fixed and the problem went away, long before the applet/editor rewrite that made the keyring calls async.
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(In reply to comment #3) > It should, and it does now with NM 0.9 and later due to a rewrite of those > areas. Unfortunately it's a lot harder to make the functions async in the > old code, and backporting doesn't work because it's been entirely rewritten. Sure, no need to break a whole lot of code in a stable release. Closing this bugreport since the core issue in gnome-keyring-daemon has been fixed (bug 574449).