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. >> -- >> 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