On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:00 +0100, Darren Kenny wrote: > That jittering is most likely something else restarting. > > Can you please try running something like execsnoop (attached) - it's a dtrace > script that shows you if something is quickly restarting. > > A recent one that I saw was the ospm daemon, but a reboot seemed to stop it > happening - I've no idea why it happened though, but it looked like some > service > was restarting causing it to crash/restart.
FWIW, I started seeing this when I bfu'ed my laptop to a recent ON build (not NWAM), my Gnome bits are from build 118. The whole notification area is twitching constantly. execsnoop shows a tight exec loop of: 38917 148592 148591 /usr/bin/svcprop -C -p general/active cups/scheduler:default 38917 101707 1 /usr/perl5/bin/perl /usr/bin/desktop-print-management-applet 38917 148594 101707 sh -c /usr/bin/svcprop -C -p general/active cups/scheduler:default 2>/dev/null 38917 148595 148594 /usr/bin/svcprop -C -p general/active cups/scheduler:default 38917 148596 101707 /bin/sh /usr/lib/lp/bin/desktop-print-management-applet 38917 148596 101707 /usr/lib/ospm/ospm-applet -Seb
