Meh, spoke too soon. I just got the crash again :( However, some observations: First there are two copies of at-spi- registryd running in gnome, one as user and one as root. When I try tol attach gdb to the user version PID I get a general Gnome freeze as Steve says.
If I start KDE from GDM instead of Gnome I get zero copies of at-spi- registryd running (no surprise there). When I then start orca from KDE I get ONE copy of at-spi-registryd and that one accepts a gdb attach. So my plan now is to run that and start lots of gnome apps in Gnome and see if I can provoke a crash. -- at-spi-registryd crash (please attach backtraces, check crash reports before) https://launchpad.net/bugs/62446 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs