Latest GNOME problems/bugs

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

  Just finished compiling/installing everything from CVS (as of late the 8th)
and noticed a few things:

1. 'gnome-name-service' doesn't quit when I exit a session. Then I start
   another session and wind up with multiple copies running. Couldn't
   figure out why things seemed slow and load average 3+ until I saw I
   had 4 name-services running (3 from previous sessions). When killing
   it (outside of X/GNOME) I get a core file:

Core was generated by `gnome-name-service'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/GNOME/lib/libgnorbagtk.so.0...done.
<snip>
#0  0x401a1f79 in _IO_vfprintf ()
#1  0x401a9e4d in fprintf ()
#2  0x4020551f in vsyslog ()
#3  0x40205471 in syslog ()
#4  0x804a780 in signal_handler (signo=11) at gnome-name-server.c:197
#5  <signal handler called>
#6  0x2 in ?? ()
#7  0x4000a6b0 in _dl_runtime_resolve ()
#8  0x804a78d in signal_handler (signo=11) at gnome-name-server.c:201
#9  <signal handler called>
#10 0x2 in ?? ()
#11 0x4000a6b0 in _dl_runtime_resolve ()
#12 0x804a78d in signal_handler (signo=11) at gnome-name-server.c:201
#13 <signal handler called>
<snip>
  
  The above is repeated several thousand times (literally, I quit paging
through it after 8000 :-)

2. I also have some zombie processes again (I haven't seen any since way
   back with the 0.90 or so stuff):

20037 tty1     S      0:00 -bash
 6311 tty1     S      0:00  \_ sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx -- -bpp 24
 6312 tty1     S      0:00      \_ xinit /home/mhall/.xinitrc -- -bpp 24
 6313 ?        S      0:05          \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper :0 -bpp 24
 6316 tty1     S      0:00          \_ gnome-session
 6321 tty1     Z      0:00              \_ [gnome-session <defunct>]
 6324 tty1     S      0:00 gnome-smproxy --sm-config-prefix /.gnome-smproxy-a0u6
 6351 tty1     S      0:00 xscreensaver -no-splash -timeout 10 -nice 10 -xrm *pr
 6353 tty1     S      0:00 panel --sm-config-prefix /panel.d/Session-Ez72Mb/ --s
 6354 tty1     Z      0:00  \_ [panel <defunct>]
 6357 tty1     S      0:00 fvwm2 -d :0.0 -s -clientId 11c7d948cc0000923688787000
 6359 tty1     S      0:00 xvtdl -Wp 6 27 -Ws 435 480 -WP 0 0 -Wi
 6361 tty1     S      0:00 gmc --sm-config-prefix /gmc-31h2mr/ --sm-client-id 11
 6364 tty1     Z      0:00  \_ [gmc <defunct>]
 6363 ?        S      0:00 gnome-name-service
 6367 ?        S      0:00 gen_util_applet --activate-goad-server gen_util_apple
 6373 ?        S      0:00 gnomepager_applet --activate-goad-server gnomepager_a
 6374 ?        Z      0:00  \_ [gnomepager_appl <defunct>]

  Starting it with my ~/.xinitrc:

exec gnome-session > $HOME/logs/gnome-session.log 2>&1

3. mc failed to compile with something about 'no rule to make es_ES.po ...'
   Seems there isn't an 'es_ES.gmo' file. Editing the po/Makefile and
   removing all references to es_ES.* and it then compiled/installed fine.
   
--
I got a lobotomy and Windows the same week....

Mike Hall <mhall@riverside.org>, (MH993)   -    http://www.riverside.org
System Administrator (*nix, Perl, CGI hacker, certified OS/2 Specialist)