Linux/Alpha GNOME load problem SOLVED

["Adam C. Powell, IV" <adam powell nist gov>]

Hello,

Well, I got brave and upgraded to kernel 2.2.0-pre6, and GNOME apps no
longer hog CPU.  COOL!

Applets work properly too!  AWESOME!!

Two little bugs:

1) Somehow GNOME does not exit properly.  This is odd, because I had it
exiting just fine for a while...  Anyway, the panel remains, and echoes
to console:

the appwidget 1201DC830
Saving to [/panel.d/Session-1181069946...]
Saving session: 1 2 3 4

Then (after 5 minutes of waiting) when I exit E and kill X, it gives
Gdk-ERRORs, X connection broken.  Makes sense.

I don't know how to debug further.

2) When I hit the close-window window manager gadget (the little X) on
any gmc window, it kills gmc.  Curiously, if I restart gmc from the
command line, the close-window gadget just closes the window, like it's
supposed to; the menu "Close" selection works just fine too.  When gmc
dies (run by gnome-session), it leaves behind:

Gdk-error **: an x io error occurred
aborting...
Abort (core dumped)

strace gives:

SYS_94(0x12040ea90, 0x3, 0xffffffffffffffff, 0, 0x11ffff780) = 1
gettimeofday({916177299, 945775}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, {0, 0})      = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0})
ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
read(4, "", 32)                         = 0
write(2, "\n", 1)                       = 1
write(2, "Gdk", 3)                      = 3
write(2, "-", 1)                        = 1
write(2, "ERROR **: ", 10)              = 10
write(2, "an x io error occurred", 22)  = 22
write(2, "\naborting...\n", 13)         = 13
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT])        = 0 (old mask [])
getxpid()                               = 1448
kill(1448, SIGABRT)                     = 0
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) ---

Very curious- I don't see anything obvious...

Anyway, GNOME is beautiful!  Looking forward to the removal of the last
few bugs...

Thanks,

-Adam `Cold Fusion' Powell, IV http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~powell/ ____
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