From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: While using dia the application froze. I selected the "closed window". Received application not responding, force quit dialog. I selected force quit and the application terminated. After which I was unable to start any new applications. Couldn't bring up the desktop menu. Couldn't use the toolbars. The applications that were running still functioned. This also occurred using evolution. If evolution froze, it caused the same behavior after I killed evolution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run dia or evolution until it hangs. 2. Kill the app 3. Attempt to start another app. Actual Results: See description Additional info:
It just happened again when I dismissed the redhat update window. The window froze, I selected the "close" icon, received the window not responding dialog, force quit. Brought up the desktop menu. Selected "open terminal" which froze the desktop menu. Selected "Logout" from the toolbar, which froze the toolbar.
if it happens with dia and evolution it's probably a generic thing, and not specific to either.
Hmm. Existing apps still work, just new ones won't start? I wonder if it's something silly like running out of diskspace or something... I've noticed before things seem to fall apart when that happens. Do you have any files in /tmp that start with xses-{your username} ? if so can you attach them?
Created attachment 117058 [details] xses from /tmp
Created attachment 117059 [details] xses from /tmp
[swall@ptlinux tmp]$ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 25254236 19744492 4226880 83% / /dev/hda2 101105 38332 57552 40% /boot none 516764 0 516764 0% /dev/shm
Happened again. This time I was saving an attachment from evolution. I navigated to the directory I wanted to save in, clicked save and the save dialog froze. I'm attaching the latest xses.
Created attachment 117071 [details] /tmp/xses
Does this still happen? If it does, could you try starting a new application from a terminal, and run it under strace like this: strace -o logfile gedit then attach the logfile here.