various gnome problems with current unstable
If one upgrades an hppa machine to unstable and tries to start gnome,
the first problem one encounters is that gnome-panel tells you that it's
already running about 9 times, then nothing happens. Downgrading
gnome-panel (and its dependencies -- gnome-panel-data, gnome-utils,
libgnomevfs2-common and some misc libs) to 2.8.3-1 makes it work.
However, starting gnome applications then doesn't go at all well.
X-Chat segfaults. Evolution dies with a 'Fatal IO error 22' after
whining about failing to parse message-list.etspec. Nautilus dies with
a Fontconfig error and Pango error. gnome-calculator, aisleriot and
abiword work fine. This could all be due to having had to install older
versions of packages to make gnome-panel work, of course. Or maybe
there's some common bug in an underlying library causing all these
problems.
When having problems with gnome-panel 2.10.2-1, the output from ps -aux
seems to indicate that lots of invocations of gnome-panel are intended to
be transient, but are sticking around.
What kind of information is going to be useful to help someone debug
this? Is it worth trying 2.12 from experimental? Does anyone care
about getting 2.10 fixed?
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