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