Ghee Teo wrote: > Thanks for th e info. > > the problem seems to be your manual invocation of metacity --replace (I > assume it is manually invoked) does not replace (pid 8725) metacity. > gnome-session saw that one of its required component, windowmanager is > exiting while it is in running mode, it tries to restart it. The freshly > restarted metacity found that a window manager is already running (pid > 23032), so it exits and the interaction between gnome-session and > metacity keeps on repeating and hence the error you saw. Killing 23032 > sorted the problem because the freshly restarted metacity does not exit. > > Why did you run metacity --replace ?
I did not when this problem started. > The bug is more like why does --replace did not work. > If you have more information, we would like to know, > > -Ghee > p.s. can you send me your .config/gnome-session/saved-session/* > May be there is some info in there that may be helpful. Unfortunately, it is gone, and now the problem has no longer manifested itself. -- Shawn Walker
