Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 01:10:30 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gonf2 upgrade breaks my system Message-ID: <1241845830.88553.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20090508230027.B11EB1CC0B@ptavv.es.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > 7.2-STABLE of April 22. Uniprocessor system (ThinkPad T43). > > All ports updated to cvs as of 7-May at 03:00:00 UTC. > > After updating gconf2 to 2.26.1, my Gnome startup fails. I use startx, > not gdm. > > The failure is that gnome-panel starts and the top panel appears for a > second or two, then vanishes. But the CPU gets very busy, and the > display starts jumping up and down by 24 pixels every second or so. > > I get no core files and see nothing on the console that would indicate > what might be happening, but it makes the system pretty unusable. The > only way out that I could come up with was to switch back to vty0 and > enter a ^C. > > I tried moving my .gnome2 directory out of the way, but that did not > help. Would .local or some other directory possibly help? > > Any idea of where to look? How to try to get an indication of the > problem? Follow the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to build gnome-panel and gconf2 (at least) with debugging symbols, then hopefully you'll be able to get a backtrace from gnome-panel. All the symptoms point to a crash, but I cannot reproduce. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkoFEDEACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fSHwCfVukpoGFop0HmrqSm2TfiX7ki Iw0AoItqlJb3zEtktRmlQgQ28Gx9C/5M =Gokx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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