Cursor rotating very often for a long time

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I use ostree://fedora-workstation:fedora/30/x86_64/silverblue Version: 30.20190413.n.1 (2019-04-13T17:46:44Z).

Very often the cursor changes to the rotating symbol and is rotating for a long time. But then changes back to the ordinary cursor.

Why does this happen?

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I confirm this behaviour. Iā€™m running same version as you.
Donā€™t know why itā€™s happening.

In the logs (journalctl -xe|less) I see:

apr 15 12:18:16 localhost.localdomain polkitd[921]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6757:650656 (system bus name :1.589 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 4 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale it_IT.UTF-8)
apr 15 12:18:16 localhost.localdomain rpm-ostree[2163]: Allowing active client :1.590 (uid 1000)
apr 15 12:18:16 localhost.localdomain rpm-ostree[2163]: client(id:cli dbus:1.590 unit:gnome-terminal-server.service uid:1000) added; new total=2
apr 15 12:18:17 localhost.localdomain rpm-ostree[2163]: client(id:cli dbus:1.590 unit:gnome-terminal-server.service uid:1000) vanished; remaining=1
apr 15 12:18:17 localhost.localdomain polkitd[921]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:6757:650656 (system bus name :1.589, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale it_IT.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
apr 15 12:18:29 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:18:29 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:18:29 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:18:32 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:18:33 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:19:14 localhost.localdomain firefox.desktop[1678]: IPDL protocol Error: Received an invalid file descriptor
apr 15 12:19:54 localhost.localdomain firefox.desktop[1678]: IPDL protocol Error: Received an invalid file descriptor
apr 15 12:20:02 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:23:29 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:23:29 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:23:29 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:23:32 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:23:33 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
apr 15 12:25:02 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[902]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.resolve1' failed: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service not found.
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For this error, thereā€™s an explanation here. But I have no idea if it may be related to the spinning cursor of gnome-shellā€¦

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I have it happen at times too, generally it does so when the PC is idle more than when I am busy on it. Usually, it is a flatpak that is open but idle for me. Reason? Maybe something to do with not updating the cursor after completing an action that initiated the ā€œspinning cursorā€.

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Guess itā€™s related to GNOME 'cause I seen this issue a lot in F30 non-silverblue.

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Yes I think you are correct on that. It doesnā€™t happen to me in Deepin or Pantheon who both use Wayland I believe.

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(For the record this is probably a bug, but I donā€™t think Pantheon uses Wayland yet.)

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I wasnā€™t sure about Pantheon, but was fairly certain about Deepin using Wayland. Yes it is a bug, I think as well, do you know if it has been filed yet? Maybe Iā€™ll go over to the Gnome issue tracker and take a look.

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Do you think you could be seeing 1692135 ā€“ Possible regression: Spinner will not always terminate unless window titlebar grabbed and window moved? As I understand that bug, it involves the wait cursor sometimes not going away after starting an application.

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Thanks for the link.

$ rpm -qi mutter | grep Version
Version     : 3.32.0

Iā€™ll wait for 3.32.1 and see if it fixes the issue.