Is this reproducible by anyone? 1. open a single gnome-terminal 2. log in as root via "su -" 3. run gedit 4. try to open gedit's Preferences via the application specific menu displayed on the top panel (does it open? here, it doesn't) 5. try to trigger the "Activities" hotspot with the mouse What happens? Here the desktop freezes completely. One can still move the mouse, but that's all. Killing gedit and gnome-terminal doesn't achieve anything. If killing more processes, eventually the "Oh no..." screen appears, but upon trying to log back in at GDM, the desktop doesn't load.

On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:06:15 +0100, Noah Menzi wrote: > On 02.11.2013 13:14, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> Is this reproducible by anyone? >> >> 1. open a single gnome-terminal >> 2. log in as root via "su -" >> 3. run gedit >> 4. try to open gedit's Preferences via the application specific menu >> displayed on the top panel (does it open? here, it doesn't) >> 5. try to trigger the "Activities" hotspot with the mouse >> >> What happens? Here the desktop freezes completely. One can still move >> the mouse, but that's all. Killing gedit and gnome-terminal doesn't >> achieve anything. If killing more processes, eventually the "Oh no..." >> screen appears, but upon trying to log back in at GDM, the desktop >> doesn't load. > I can reproduce this bug. > On my Fedora 19 it doesn't open the application specific menu of gedit, > but gnome doesn't freeze. > On my Fedora 20 it doesn't open the application specific menu and the > gnome desktop freezes completely. I can still move the mouse too. Among the more than 700 gnome-shell bugs in Fedora bugzilla, I've found https://bugzilla.redhat.com/956306 which exists since 2013-04-24 and is for Fedora 18. Since it has not been responded to by a maintainer, what would be the normal procedure? To open a new ticket for Fedora 20?

On Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:19:30 +0100 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:06:15 +0100, Noah Menzi wrote: > > > On 02.11.2013 13:14, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > Is this reproducible by anyone? > > > > > > 1. open a single gnome-terminal > > > 2. log in as root via "su -" > > > 3. run gedit > > > 4. try to open gedit's Preferences via the application specific > > > menu displayed on the top panel (does it open? here, it doesn't) > > > 5. try to trigger the "Activities" hotspot with the mouse > > > > > > What happens? Here the desktop freezes completely. One can still > > > move the mouse, but that's all. Killing gedit and gnome-terminal > > > doesn't achieve anything. If killing more processes, eventually > > > the "Oh no..." screen appears, but upon trying to log back in at > > > GDM, the desktop doesn't load. > > I can reproduce this bug. > > On my Fedora 19 it doesn't open the application specific menu of > > gedit, but gnome doesn't freeze. > > On my Fedora 20 it doesn't open the application specific menu and > > the gnome desktop freezes completely. I can still move the mouse > > too. > > Among the more than 700 gnome-shell bugs in Fedora bugzilla, I've > found > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/956306 > > which exists since 2013-04-24 and is for Fedora 18. Since it has not > been responded to by a maintainer, what would be the normal > procedure? To open a new ticket for Fedora 20? Go ahead and file a bug - this will help for tracking and the worst case scenario is it will merely be marked as a duplicate. You've already documented the steps to reproduce, so most of the work of filing a bug is already done :)