I have been experiencing this same problem for several months now. It always starts out as a sudden, dramatic increase in the amount of time that it takes to simulate the AI players moves after I click the "Turn Done" button (CPU is always pegged at 100% when this happens). After that point, scrolling around the map or anything else that requires redrawing a significant portion of the screen lags terribly and will peg the CPU at 100% for brief periods of time. Fairly soon after this happens, I see the same behavior that Phillip reported with the desktop suddenly reverting to a default theme and set of icons. Running the following script usually brings all of the icons and widgets back to the normal theme: killall gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon & killall nautilus This is usually only temporary, and after 10-15 minutes I'll get dumped back to the default theme again. Completely restarting the X server will usually prevent the problem from resurfacing for an hour or so, but it only delays the inevitable.
I have also had this problem occur while running nothing but Firefox, but the vast majority of the time I see this problem is when I'm running Freeciv. I modified my script to save a copy of .xsession-errors when it tries to restart gnome-settings-daemon. I'll attach it to this ticket in case it contains anything useful. Is there anything else I can provide to help debug this issue? ** Attachment added: ".xsession-errors log showing additional information" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/751163/+attachment/2533960/+files/.xsession-errors.bak -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751163 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashes during use Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon Sometimes while using the system, gnome-settings-daemon crashes with the following output: ----------------- The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 5066 error_code 8 request_code 15 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) ----------------- Ubuntu 10.10 gnome-settings-daemon: Installed: 2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1 Candidate: 2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1 Version table: *** 2.32.0-0ubuntu3.1 0 500 http://mt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.32.0-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://mt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/751163/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
