Bug 889110 - Fedora 18 TC3 after a while starting new xterm won't work anymore
Summary: Fedora 18 TC3 after a while starting new xterm won't work anymore
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-session
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-20 09:07 UTC by Stefan Assmann
Modified: 2014-02-05 14:04 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-02-05 14:04:19 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
xterm.strace (101.19 KB, text/plain)
2012-12-20 09:07 UTC, Stefan Assmann
no flags Details

Description Stefan Assmann 2012-12-20 09:07:52 UTC
Created attachment 666551 [details]
xterm.strace

Description of problem:
sassmann@t530:~> xterm
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7773, errno = 2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-session-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64

Not sure if I got the right component, please reassign if I got this wrong.

How reproducible:
only happens after a few hours, but then every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch xterm

Additional info:
I'm reusing my old home directory from F17.
Moving away ~/.ICEauthority allows xterm to start again, but that's probably not a good idea.

Comment 1 Andy Wang 2013-01-09 16:49:22 UTC
I'm seeing the exact same problem periodically as well. I thought it was related to suspending my laptop while on one network (work) then going home and connecting to a different network (home) but that's not reproducible either.
 
It just occurred and roughly coincided with me connecting to our juniper connect vpn, so I logged out of my gnome session and back in and reconnected to my work vpn and the problem is not occurring.  So it's not at least directly triggered by network changes.

Comment 2 Cristian Gheorghe Florescu 2013-01-28 16:54:51 UTC
I've the same issue and the following workaround it was ok ... restarting session (logout,logon). 
I didn't reproduce it but was happened few times.

FC18 x86_64

Comment 3 Dan Deighton 2013-02-13 14:54:38 UTC
I have the same issue with F18 x86_64 whenever I resume from hibernate or suspend. Logging out, then back in fixes the issue until the next hibernation/suspend, but that is not an acceptable workaround. It defeats the purpose of hibernation and suspend in the first place. 

Removing ~/.ICEauthority also works, but as the OP stated, that's not a good idea.

When running a strace on an application that won't start, I see an attempt to read:
 unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/<gnome-session PID>. 

This is followed by:
 Refusing new client connection

I'm not sure why it is refused. The permissions look correct on the files and directories involved.

I'm not sure what else to check. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-12-21 10:00:38 UTC
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Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2014-02-05 14:04:22 UTC
Fedora 18 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2014-01-14. Fedora 18 is
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