I think I've got a good guess. You've also got the kde installed, right? What's happening is that the kde has installed the 'Disk Navigator' which puts a hardlink from / in /usr/share/apps. The gnome panel recursively scans /usr/share/apps to build its directories resulting in an endless loop. Uncool eh? This seems to be fixed in the latest kde 1.1pre2 debs.
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > I've had the following problem for quite a while when trying to use > gnome... > the gnome panel clears an area at the botom of my screen, and greys it > out > presumably in preparation for putting the bar there... however, it sits > forever > and doesn't actually draw the bar... instead, it crunches my disk and > eats up > 10-15% of my CPU power indefinately. Anyone know what's going wrong or > how to fix it? > > --Evan > -- > Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 > DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- > Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Elder ResCon at > Northwestern > "Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!'" --Edgar Allen Poe > "I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the > screen. > --Dilbert to Management > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
