Resending a rewrite of my original poorly-written email that received no responses. I must have something peculiar in my setup because few seem to be encountering this problem with Gnome. I'm just not sure where to look next.
When I run the Gnome Control Center it crashes me clear out of X. This has been happening for quite a while, first with woody and then with sid. I am basically up-to-date with sid packages. I did narrow it down to it being screensaver-properties-capplet that crashes. I do remember experiencing a brief period without this crash (a month or so ago?), but can't relate it to anything. My video card is a NVidia TNT2. I have a custom compiled kernel. I use the latest driver from NVidia, but believe the problem occurred before switching drivers. I generally run WindowMaker, but experience this crash when running Gnome with Enlightenment or Sawfish. This is the latest Debian/sid-provided Gnome, not Ximian's. I have tried the following steps to no avail: - Deleted all my user gnome config directories - Uninstalled and reinstalled xscreensaver. Note that the screensavers seem to work, although I've seen a 3D one crash. - Switched to mesag3 instead of xlibmesa... (What's the difference?) - Needed to get the xscreensaver daemon to start automatically. Fixing that didn't help. I have the tail end of an strace at the bottom. Please let me know what additional info would help diagnose the problem. Maybe I should throttle myself back to woody? If so is there a best way to do this? TIA, Steve ------ strace output running screensaver-properties-capplet ---------- (many lines deleted at the top) fcntl(9, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fstat(9, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000 _llseek(9, 0, 0xbfffe9e4, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) gettimeofday({982541191, 571660}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 5, -1) = 1 gettimeofday({982541191, 685666}, NULL) = 0 read(9, "IOR:010000001d00000049444c3a474e"..., 4096) = 277 close(9) = 0 munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0 socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 9 connect(9, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/orbit-scooper/orb-15652131481065954827"}, 45) = 0 fcntl(9, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fcntl(9, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl(9, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 writev(9, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\0(\1\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, {"D\371\377\277\1", 5}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0~n=\21\204\23-\206\1\0\0\0T\267\33\373"..., 28}, {"\25\0\0\0register_capplet_new\0", 25}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"@\0\0\0|EP^Sj#>1oNO>z$BqII[HkXBEv\"y"..., 68}, {"\26\0\0\0", 4}, {"IDL:GNOME/capplet:1.0\0", 22}, {"\0\0", 2}, {"\1\0\0\0", 4}, {"\312\256\337\272", 4}, {"P\0\0\0\1\1\0\0*\0\0\0/tmp/orbit-scooper/o"..., 84}, {"\37\0\0\0", 4}, {"screensaver-properties-capplet\0", 31}, {"\0", 1}, {"\377\377\377\377", 4}], 19) = 308 select(10, [5 6 9], NULL, [5 6 9], NULL) = 1 (in [6]) --- SIGHUP (Hangup) --- +++ killed by SIGHUP +++ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA (Somewhere in the shadow of the evil empire)