[lug] Metacity lockups

[Michael J. Hammel]

I upgraded to F9 at work last week.  All was well till yesterday.  Three
times Metacity locked up.  Looking at ps I find bug-buddy running too,
against metacity.  Trying to kill either just made metacity restart and
hit the same bug again.  Anyone else seen metacity lock up like this?
No window access, no gnome-panel access.  Nothing but a movable mouse.
The activity monitor is still running so it's a desktop problem.  I
finally cleaned out all the session files from ~/.metacity before going
home last night.  So far this morning I've had no additional problems.

I tried replacing metacity last night with kwin, fluxbox and xfwm.  It
sort of works but after a logout it looks like metacity is launched
again, along with my alternate window manager.  Mucks things up that
way.  I tried killing metacity from the Sessions applet, manually
starting the alternate window manager and saving the session but I still
get metacity when I logout and back in again.  

On a side note, anyone know how to *NOT* backup ~/.gvfs.  I *HATE* that
mount point.  I've tried all kinds of things with rsync's exclude-from
file to ignore it but I keep getting messages that "some files were not
backed up because you don't have permission for that
directory" (paraphrasing, of course).  I unmounted .gvfs and turned off
the fuse daemon but the mount point keeps coming back.  It's drivin' me
nuts.  

I think its time to switch to xfce permanently.  A memory leak is easier
to deal with than the crap they're rolling into GNOME these days.  Maybe
I'll just go back to FVWM.  I wonder how many apps will stop working if
I do that.....

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Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software Engineer
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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