On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:12 PM, mik firestone <mikf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> e17 has become very unstable on my machine. Within a few seconds of >> starting up, I can reliably crash it. All I need to do is leave the >> focus on the engage bar at the bottom of my screen, wait a few seconds >> and then move the mouse. It would appear that I can crash e17 hard >> enough that I don't even get the white screen of debug. >> >> I have cleaned out (rm -rf /usr/local/e17) my entire e17 install to >> make sure I have no old libraries laying around causing trouble. >> >> I have attached a backtrace. I have more and I can generate them >> fairly easily. If the listserv strips the backtrace, I will upload >> them to dropbox and provide the public URLs. > > Sorry the backtrace didn't make it. Maybe use pastebin and send a link. > >> I have noticed that one of the symptoms is that >> efreet_desk_create_cache runs non-stop. This results in my engage bar >> flashing at me at a high frequency. >> >> I "fixed" it yesterday by deleting my config directory. It cleared up >> the problem until I logged out last night and logged in this morning. >> Now it is back >> >> What have I broken? > > Hum, sounds strange. Could you run this program directly and tell us > what is happening. It's in > ${prefix}/lib/efreet/efreet_desktop_cache_create.
Ah. Some strace and gdb later, the culprit was my .xinitrc file. It said XDG_CACHE_HOME="{$HOME}/.cache" which evaluated to {/home/mik}/.cache and things just went sideways from there. I fixed the errant {} and things are much happier now. Now I need to figure out why my .xinitrc was setting those. Thanks. > -- > Cedric BAIL > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model > configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and > the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free > download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- I am all that is bad, all that is evil. I am Mojo Jojo! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users