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

[mouse]

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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