gnome is dead (kind of) since 2/1/2006 updates

[D. Stolte]

The same thing happened with kde. It seems that the new xfs is broken (stuck in a loop).
I went back to the xfs from FC5T2 and everything started working again.

/ds

mouse wrote:
> I was looking at this a little bit.  It looks like the apps are sitting
> there eating up memory till they get OOM-killed (OOM==out of memory, of
> course).  You can check this by running 'dmesg' and looking for
> errors.  
> 
> I did some further ltracing on a few programs.  "metacity" seems to go
> till it gets to "pango_context_get_language" and then
> "pango_context_get_matrics", and then sits till I killed it.
> "gnome-session" didn't give anything so clear, but seemed to be opening
> a font, reading a lot of bytes, and then moving on, forever.   
> 
> For S&G I checked fluxbox too, which hung in XftFontOpenName, still
> eating away memory.
> 
> The really funny thing is if I log in via a fail-safe session, root
> *can* start gnome-session.
> 
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 11:28 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:
>> I need some good advice on how to debug this problem.
>> I have yum updated rawhide today (2/2/2006) on a x86 toshiba laptop
>> and I still have a kind of broken gnome that broke 2/1/2006.
>>
>> What I mean is that as my current user, I try to startx from runlevel
>> 3 and it goes for a while and then dies and I am back at the command
>> prompt.  I can add a new user and login as that user and can startx
>> just fine as a new virgin user.  But from my old user, gnome will not
>> start. 
>>
>> I do not have any error messages in /var/log/messages
>> nor /var/log/Xorg.0.log nor any where else that I can think of.
>>
>> How do I debug this?  Can X be started in a verbose debug mode?
>>
>> I'd like to file a bugzilla, but on what?  System is hosed is not a
>> menu item, nor very helpful. 
>>
>> Thanks.
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