[Bug 894766] Re: DBus timeout stalling applications

[iMac]

I discovered that stopping my autofs5 service seemed to resolve this
stalling, or at least one case where I was seeing it (Shutter not being
able to load).   I have not really figured out why.

My autofs config is simple, mounts a few NFS shares when I am on my home
network, as well as a local drive when it is connected.

#auto.master
/shares	/etc/auto.ianbmacdonald --timeout=120 --ghost


#auto.ianbmacdonald
media		-fstype=nfs4,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,async media.ianbmacdonald.com:/data
data		-fstype=nfs4,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,async maple.ianbmacdonald.com:/data
external	        -fstype=auto		UUID="be2779cd-9607-46b4-a64f-92ec5894ec1a"

Basically with autofs enabled, I don't see a complete list of folders in
the left pane on most "open" dialogues, there are delays refreshing my
evolution main screen, and shutter will not load (or takes minutes).
It seems to be the culprit, although I have not seen the symptoms where
desktop notifications get jammed up (as described above) in a very long
time (maybe because I usually stop the service).

I attached my xsession-errors from today (no autofs running);  A few
interesting things in there, notably with evolution, but nothing that
seems related to this previous issue.





** Attachment added: "Xsession Errors"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/894766/+attachment/2721761/+files/.xsession-errors

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Title:
  DBus timeout stalling applications

Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Intermittently, I seem to have a situation where applications already
  running are responsive, however DBus appears to be stalling,
  preventing some new applications from loading and causing notification
  messages to be "repeated" on my desktop.

  I had Banshee song titltes and Evolution calendar reminders moving
  through the notification bar, both which seemed to "repeat" at the
  same time that I was unable to load shutter. On the console I received
  the following message.  A minute later the shutter application loaded
  without problems or console messages.

  (shutter:3621): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message:
  Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
  application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
  blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
  connection was broken.

  I am opening this bug to see if others have this issue, and will try
  and see if this is some sort of app congestion with dbus-monitor
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingDBus

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: dbus 1.4.14-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Nov 25 09:07:22 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dbus
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-28 (27 days ago)

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