From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTkkJ-0001lH-BI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:20:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A316E034D; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lbg2.evolone.org (unknown [198.145.28.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FE8E034D for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbg2.evolone.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 919F51C323; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:15:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:15:22 -0800 From: Michael Higgins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help. Message-ID: <20080225131522.2c1ef2b3@lbg2.evolone.org> Organization: Evolone X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.7; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5c24a848-478d-41a5-9777-31773d32a7be X-Archives-Hash: d5aa54f0d34371cd1c1d6fa651008a70 I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM. For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything? I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and repeat). This gets me working again 98% of the time. This is slightly better than rebooting every time you have a problem. Slightly. So, of course I have a lot of questions. Anyone know what is going on? Anyone know how I can find out what is going on? Adding a gig and a half of ram didn't change the behaviour. Changing video cards didn't either. (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Finally, I'd like to just get the PID of gnome panel in a one-liner to send to kill, if I can't get this fixed. Can anyone volunteer a "gimme only the PID" one-liner? [ And why does it always complain about not finding GDM... when was that required? I've never used it, nor wanted it. I want the warnings to go away! ] Any replies appreciated. Cheers, -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list