Gnome 3.4 sometimes hangs after login

I've been experiencing this issue about 1/3 of the time I have booted my computer since the upgrade to Gnome 3.4. Sometimes I get an unresponsive desktop, where I can move the mouse, but nothing else happens. I am able to switch to tty1, login as root, and restart gdm, which works. Does anyone have suggestions? Any log files I should look at when this happens?

hadrons123 wrote:I don't know. Is there any particular advantage in keeping gdm?
Nothing... it is just a quirk of mine. If i have gnome, i'd rather install gdm over lxdm. However, if lxdm is better than gdm, there's no problem by trying it. Btw, i love lxde. It's just amazing how uncomplicated it is.
Regards,
Jaime

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I just had this problem and couldn't find a solution online, so for the record (I'm presuming it's too late for you) here is what worked for me.
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First workaround: Logged in as root and manually opened the username.sparsebundle file (under Users/.username), using the FileVault password. At this point I could see that all the files were intact, and access them. Then I got a warning from Sophos Antivirus that a file needed to be moved to the infected folder and I had to enter a password for it. After that, login worked fine. But after the next logout I had the same problem.
Final workaround: Turning off Sophos (not just the moving of files but also active scanning) solved the problem. Best guess is that Sophos is trying to move files before login and doesn't have the permission to move them to the right place but you can't see that it's needing that feedback so it just stalls indefinitely.
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This is a weird one and if this isn't the correct forum, please let me know.
I have a two year old MBP that I use 99% of the time with a 30" Apple monitor. It has always worked well. Now, if it is attached to the monitor and I log in, the machine just hangs after I put in the password. It does this also in the troubleshooting "blank" account I have. If I shut the machine down and detach the monitor and external drives, it logs me in nicely. (I'm using it now)
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I need to hang my head in shame. The solution, once found was simple and took only seconds and it was merely a software conflict. I should have gotten that one myself but didn't, because, believe it or not, I didn't think the software was running and I simply forgot about it to begin with.
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Regards,
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I need to read data from two COM port and order of data appearance from COM port is not fixed.
I have used small timeout and reading data in while loop continously . If my application is steady for sometime it gets hangs and afterwards it doesnt receive any data again.
Then I need to restart my application again to make it work.
I am attaching VI. Let me know any issue.
Kudos are always welcome if you got solution to some extent.
I need my difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy my success.
--Ranjeet
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billko wrote:
Ranjeet_Singh wrote:
I need to read data from two COM port and order of data appearance from COM port is not fixed.
I have used small timeout and reading data in while loop continously . If my application is steady for sometime it gets hangs and afterwards it doesnt receive any data again.
Then I need to restart my application again to make it work.
I am attaching VI. Let me know any issue.
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Not fixed means order is not fixed, data from any com port can come anytime. lenght is fixed, one com port have 14 byte and other 8 byte fixed..
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Kudos are always welcome if you got solution to some extent.
I need my difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy my success.
--Ranjeet

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