[lug] Metacity lockups

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:54:32 -0600
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org ("Michael J. Hammel") wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 10:51 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Odd. I don't use metacity, and haven't heard of many recent
> > crashes. Have you applied all updates? 
> 
> I did an update before the crashes started happening.  Didn't notice
> if metacity had been updated.  I usually only glance through the
> updates to see if the kernel was affected so I know if a reboot is
> needed.  So far today I've not had any crashes.  Might have been
> something mucked up in a session file.  I'll cross my fingers on that
> count.

yeah, could have been. 

> > > 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.  
> > 
> > Just --exclude it from your backups? 
> 
> I've tried
>   --exlude='.gvfs/'
>   --exclude='/home/mjhammel/.gvfs/'
> and in an exclude-from file
>   - .gvfs/
>   - /home/mjhammel/.gvfs/

Try:

--exclude='/home/mjhammel/.gvfs/*' ? 

> I still get errors from rsync.  Whoever decided a user-specific fs
> mount was necessary for a desktop must have been doing some seriously
> hard drugs.  Whatever their reasoning - it's wrong.  There has to be
> a better way.

Don't look at me, I don't use it either... ;) 

> > That reminds me that I should push out an update with some memory
> > leak fixes for Xfce. I was hoping they would track them all down
> > and I could do them at once, but they did manage to find a few of
> > the more anoying ones.
> 
> Is there a metapackage for xfce?  What packages do I need to install
> for the desktop and associated apps?  I used to just compile it
> myself, but I'll take the easy route now.

yum groupinstall XFCE

You should then be able to choose it from the login screen as your
session. 

kevin
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