FC6 upgrade to FC7 - blank desktop

[antonio montagnani]

2007/6/9, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>:
> Todd Zullinger writes:
>
> > Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> Now, I've figured out that if: after starting X in the old account,
> >> I look at the process table, I see a crapload of processes hanging
> >> on a connect to /tmp/.esd/socket.  If I kill the esd process, the
> >> desktop comes out.  Panels and a whole of other stuff is still
> >> screwed up, but at least the desktop comes up.
> >>
> >> In a freshly-created account, the desktop comes up fine.
> >>
> >> Now, if I take the existing account, rename the home directory,
> >> create a blank new home directory in its place, log in, and try to
> >> start X, it still hangs in esd!
> >
> > Hmmm.  That sounds like this bug:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238680
>
> That's a related problem.  Problem #1 was my esd barfing.
> Problem #2 is that it takes down the entire desktop with it.
>
> Looks like I fixed it by nuking $HOME/.esd_auth, that seemed to have fixed
> it, for some reason.
>
> There are two problems here:
>
> 1) esd barfing, for some reason
>
> 2) When esd barfs, it takes the entire desktop with it
>
> As far as #1 goes, that should be resolved, of course, but even if esd barfs
> it should NOT take the whole desktop down with it!
>
> The problem is with the esound library.  It opens a connections to the
> esound socket without any timeout whatsoever.  If esd goes toes-up, everyone
> will wait forever, to connect to esd.
>
> The correct solution is to employ a reasonable timeout, say 10 seconds, and
> if the connection does not go through, give up and fall back to plan B.
>
>
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>
 I had same issue, and I deleted user, re-installing back his data and
setup files from backup hard disk.
What I didn't know until now that this bug (238680) was well known
since FC7Test, and it is still present in released FC7.
Very annoying....especially to new users!!!

Any solution foreseen??

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Antonio Montagnani
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