On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:44:51PM +1000, James Gregory wrote: > Since just the other day I've been logging into my Dapper notebook only > to discover that gnome-panel is "frozen". Doesn't respond to mouse > clicks etc. I straced it and found out that it's stuck on a futex. On a > hunch I made a .xsession file that ran > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 gnome-session > > So that it would use old-skool threads. Now, that's solved the problem, > I can click on stuff and it all behaves as you'd expect, but it's a > pretty nasty solution. > > Anyone know what's going on? Is there an easier way to debug this than > downloading all of gnome and building it with debug symbols etc?
Dapper has a 'gnome-panel-dbg' package, so I'd try installing that package, then attaching gdb and seeing what "thread apply all bt" says. There are other packages like 'gnome-applets-dbg' that may be helpful, depending on what exactly is broken. -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
