forwarded 656762 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658671 thanks
On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 00:17 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > there is a very bad development in the gnome-shell that reminds me off the > dreaded BSOD under Windows, namely the "Ohh, something went wrong. Please > log out and in again" or however the message is. > > This is *WRONG*. I am fine if my window manager dies, but I do NOT accept > that it tears down my ssh session where I am writing long emails. > > After pressing the log out button I see the *still*working* ssh session > for a fraction until every process is killed. > > gnome-shell should terminate in this case and just leave the other programs > running. In this case I can terminate the shells and sshs in a proper > way. Being forced to log out is definitely *not* acceptable. > > Thanks for fixing this in a proper way +1 The error message isn't actually from gnome-shell but from gnome-session. Funnily it doesn't even seem to be triggered by a problem with the shell, but caused by gnome-settings-daemon crashing, the shell and all apps are happily running in the background. (Or at least on my system this is the case). Everything I care about is running under gnome-session so forcing a logout without a chance to save stuff is pretty bad, for me it's almost as bad as just restarting X or forcing a reboot. Until this is fixed upstream I wouldn't mind having the fail whale function ripped out. If g-s-d crashes I can restart it manually, or live with badly themed apps until I decide to log out and in again. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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