On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:23, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I am not having any issues with CentOS 5 and Gnome ... I have been using it as my primary desktop since before the 5.0Beta stage.
I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed products.
The only 3rd party tools that are *installed* on the systems are the following RPMs from the RPMforge repo:
crossvc-1.5.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm directfb-0.9.25.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm directfb-devel-0.9.25.1-1.el5.rf.i386.kdiff3-0.9.92-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm meld-1.1.5-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.008-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm perl-Compress-Zlib-2.008-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.008-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.008-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-Jcode-2.06-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm perl-Mail-Sendmail-0.79-1.2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-OLE-Storage_Lite-0.16-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.32-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.21-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm perl-Unicode-Map-0.112-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm perl-XML-Parser-2.36-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm perl-XML-Simple-2.18-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm subversion-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm subversion-perl-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
None of these have actively running processes (ie.e, daemons) that could interfere with ongoing Gnome activity. I do have a couple of 3rd party tools that are installed on an automounted NFS share, but again, these are just user applications like an IDE and a source control management system that should be fairly self contained and not affect the Gnome Terminal process, Gnome applets, etc.
Also, if the hardware is the same, it might be something related to that motherboard chipset and centos-5 kernels. I would see if you have the latest BIOS for the hardware as there may be APIC/ACPI issues that can effect kernel, udev, hald, etc.
OK, I will look into this.
I have zero issues here ... but I do NOT use yum-updated or any of its applets.
The only Gnome applets in use are the default ones: Show Desktop, Window List, and Workspace switcher. I don't even have the yum- updatesd RPM installed.
I will try to raise these issues on a Gnome mailing list or forum to see if anyone has any useful insights.
Thanks, Alfred