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. > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list