On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:05:13PM -0400, William R Pentney wrote: > An strace of gnome-session and gnome-terminal revealed two things: > > - Both programs try to open /etc/gnome/config-override/session and > ./gnome/config-override/session about a thousand times and fail. Why would > it do this so many times? Is there some way to resolve it? > - Both programs read and write 32 bytes back and forth to a small file in > my .gnome directory. Temp files are one thing, but these program write > back and forth to the file several hundred times. What gives? Very strange. Things to try to get more info: 1) Run gnome-hello-0-basic rather then gnome-terminal or (particularly) gnome-session. 2) Use ltrace -S to get library and system calls interleaved. This may help pin done which library function this loop is in (if applicable). 3) Move your ~/.gnome directory to some other name temporarily (although I doubt this is it from what you describe) Are you using slink or potato? I assume you've matched up the right debain version and the right .debs.... Curiously, when I do "ltrace -o trace -S gnome-terminal", the resulting trace doesn't contain "session" at all... I do get loads of stat()s from strace for "./gnome/config-override/Terminal" though... HTH SRH -- Steve Haslam Debian GNU/Linux araqnid@debian.org gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-control-center, gdm, p3nfs. what, me worry?
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