[Bug 522772] Re: metacity (2.28 and older) falls into endless restart loop after replaced

[Lukasz Kies]

It looks like the same bug is described here, but still open:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588119

Please find attached patch from Owen Taylor. It worked for me.

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #588119
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588119

** Patch added: "metacity-meta_session_shutdown.patch"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39276059/metacity-meta_session_shutdown.patch

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metacity (2.28 and older) falls into endless restart loop after replaced
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522772
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Bug description:
Metacity in version 2.28 or any older version available in TH falls into endless restart loop when is being replaced by another window manager. It starts to consume a lot of CPU and calls GConf2 which together with metacity do many IO calls.

Please find iostat when metacity is replaced. System has no running applications:
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
                 84.92    0.00    5.56    2.25    0.00    7.27

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               1.30    28.83    7.14    7.59   307.11   291.40    40.61     0.31   21.32   3.16   4.66


Regards,
Lukasz