On my Ubuntu MATE 16.04, whenever I press shutdown, restart button, I get a message that at-spi-registryd.desktop
program is not responding and I either need to wait for the program to finish or I could reboot/shutdown anyway (warns me that I may lose work). Why does this happen? How can I make the shutdown/restart process smoother ie. not see that message and restart/shutdown the normal way?
2 Answers
This seems to be a regression of this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/729827
So, the workaround (provided you dont need assistive technologies) would be:
sudo mv /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd.old
This renames the file for at-spi2-registry
so that the system won't run it, but maybe you also want to reopen it on launchpad.
What I did to "maybe have" fixed this problem was to use Caja as root to rename /user/lib/ and renamed the "at-spi-core directory (folder)" to ORGat-spi-core. That seemed to solve the problem so far. It may not been the proper way but it has worked so far.
/usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi2-registryd
usingsudo-caja
and everything is working properly. I wanted to know if there is any downside of not making the aforementioned file executable.