From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Some times, but not always, after I log in (which starts two gnome-terminal windows) and start a full-height GNU Emacs next to the right border on a 1920x1440 screen (I have an icon in my gnome panel that starts it), if I use Ctrl-Alt-Rightarrow to switch to the second virtual desktop (where there's nothing yet), the window manager crashes and automatically starts a few times. It has also happened some times on a 1600x1200 screen on my laptop. Every time it crashes, the GNU Emacs window moves down a bit, so I know the number of crashes varies, and I easily notice when it happens. Unfortunately, it's not 100% reproducible, but it has happened very often in the past few days. Is there any additional information I could provide to make it easier to track this one down? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.5.3-3 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log in such that a gnome-terminal is started on desktops 1 and 4 2.Click on an icon that runs `emacs -geometry 80x106-0+0' (or 80x83 for 1600x1200) 3.Ctrl-Alt-rightarrow Actual Results: The window manager sometimes crashes, sometimes more than once Expected Results: It shouldn't Additional info: Non-default applets I have in my panel (that might be causing such problems?) are the keyboard layout switcher and the weather applet. I also have panel auto-hide enabled. One of the times I noticed the crash, I also noticed a run-away rhn applet eating all CPU. Since I'd logged in right after a reboot, it wasn't there before, so it might be related, but it might be an entirely unrelated problem, or even a consequence of the WM crash.
This is fixed in GNOME CVS, so basically we just have to make a new tarball release and get it in the tree. Michael I believe this is the same crash you were seeing.
Should be gone in 2.6.2
Confirmed, I couldn't get this with 2.6.2-1 after several attempts, and it would occur pretty much every time for me. However, I've had WM crashes when closing apps lately. I still haven't been able to come up with a sequence of steps that will trigger the bug, though. In fact, I coudln't even come up with a sequence of steps that will sometimes trigger it :-) I'll file a separate bug.