Hello all, After reinstalling Gentoo twice and still eventually encountering this same strange gnome problem, I figured it was time to pass this along to the knowledgable folks on this list. For reference, I'm on a duel-core AMD system, using gnome-2.16 with an svn orca version (newer revisions don't apper to fix this) and espeak-1.25 with the orca espeak driver. What happens is this. After about 15 minutes or so of leaving gnome/orca idle (I still work on text consoles a lot), the keyboard in gnome stops responding. Orca still speaks in gaim, but nothing else works, not even alt-f2 and typing 'gnome-terminal.' The only way to regain the keyboard is through /etc/init.d/xdm restart. One possible reason for this problem might have been the upgrade to glibc-2.5-r3 from glibc-2.5-r2 (although if a minor package revision causes this much trouble, that's not good). Is there any way to trace the entirety of my x session, like a strace-type program that will just trace all the interwoven X programs that make up a gnome session? .xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log tell me nothing. If anyone could give me suggestions on how to at least pin down what is causding this issue, I might be able to file a bug report with the gentoo folks and see a solution found. If anyone needs (e.g.) my /etc/make.conf, email me off-list. Thanks in advance, Garrett
