[CentOS] Frequent Gnome Terminal crashes in CentOS 5.1

Alfred von Campe alfred at von-campe.com
Thu May 29 19:14:31 UTC 2008


On May 29, 2008, at 14:48, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> How did you upgrade?

Fresh install via kickstart.  I reformatted the root and /boot  
partitions, but left one user partition untouched.

> Is it possible that you have older (possibly orphaned) binaries  
> still installed from the upgrade process?

I don't think this is possible since I reformatted the root partition  
(I only have /, /boot, and /scratch partitions in addition to a swap  
partition).

> If this is from a NEW install, then we need more info to help.

The process ends without leaving a trace unfortunately (at least that  
I can find).  I did have an strace running on one system attached to  
the gnone-terminal process and it finally died after 5 days or so.   
Here are the last 20 lines from the log:

   open("/usr/share/X11/XErrorDB", O_RDONLY) = 27
   fstat64(27, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=37949, ...}) = 0
   read(27, "! $Xorg: XErrorDB,v 1.3 2000/08/"..., 37949) = 37949
   close(27)                               = 0
   write(2, "The program \'gnome-terminal\' rec"..., 592) = 592
   close(18)                               = 0
   kill(15700, SIGTERM)                    = 0
   writev(14, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
   close(14)                               = 0
   writev(15, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
   close(15)                               = 0
   writev(13, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
   close(13)                               = 0
   writev(11, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\5\0\0\0\0", 12}], 1) = 12
   close(11)                               = 0
   close(9)                                = 0
   close(8)                                = 0
   unlink("/tmp/orbit-kb12698/linc-3d51-0-2491c193d89b6") = 0
   close(12)                               = 0
   exit_group(1)                           = ?

Is there a better way than strace to get some information on this crash?

Alfred




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