On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:10 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:00 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > I have a reproducible situation on F8 that you might find interesting. > > > > 1) boot up into a NetworkManager enabled desktop, > > 2) connect to a wireless network that has dhcp > > 3) gnome-terminal behaves normally > > 4) disable NM > > 5) connect a wired network cable for eth0 > > 6) enable the network service configured to start eth0 using dhcp to a > > different network segment than the NM wireless connected to. > > 7) watch gnome-terminal take +30 seconds to spawn a window. > > Dan Williams actually tracked this down a while ago. Thank you for > reminding me, I'll push out an update for this. > > For the perversely curious: X's session management protocol defines a > concept of a client ID, generated by the session leader and passed to > new clients. Unfortunately, the spec defines the client ID in such a > way that you have to emit the IP address of the server in the ID, and > the way that gets implemented (hold your nose) is by calling > gethostname() followed by gethostbyname(). So if your resolver isn't > reachable (because the route is down, or because it changed and > gnome-session has the old one cached), or if your hostname isn't a > resolvable DNS name, you lose. > > Thankfully the client ID is an opaque string prefixed by a version > number, so you can just bump the version number and use UUIDs. > By "you" do you mean you? And does this mean you have done this in latest X or that it is left as an exercise for the reader? David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
