gnome weirdness after running for a while

[Antony Gelberg]

Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:11:58PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> 
>>I'm no Gnome guru, but perhaps you could run one of the commands under
>>strace and post the output?  It would also be useful to see a list of
>>specific programs that are affected.
> 
> 
> As far as the strace goes, I get lots of "Timeout"s; e.g., 
> 
> lstat64("/usr/share/themes/Elberg/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc", 0xbfadfdec) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> select(17, [16], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})    = 0 (Timeout)

I think a more complete strace might be appropriate unless you are
saying that the second line is repeated verbatim.

> I'm not sure if this is abnormal or not, though. As for programs
> affected, since this happens very erratically, that would be very
> difficult to catalog.

But once it occurs, you say it stays that way until restart of X.
That's not that erratic.