A couple evenings ago I did an sid update and went along with the nautilus-1.1. The install went fine, the results seemed pretty cool except for a few probs with things that didn't show up in the browser, but it seemed okay.
The next update, I suddenly found all the nautilus-1.1 under "obsolete"... which seemed a bit strange. I left things as they were and did another update. That evening a browser choked and I had to kill nautilus. It would not come up, gave errors about GObject or something. So I decided I'd "go with the flow" and reselect the old nautilus packages and let them de-install the 1.1 versions. nautilus still won't come up; and I'm also without galeon either. Both seem to be dying in a similar way according to an strace. The child croaks and it then waits forever: open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 7 read(7, "\315#D<\250I\210\202", 8) = 8 close(7) = 0 mkdir("/dma/home/amon/.gconfd", 0700) = 0 brk(0x8109000) = 0x8109000 open("/dma/home/amon/.gconfd/lock/ior", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) pipe([7, 8]) = 0 stat64("/usr/bin/gconfd-2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=41548, ...}) = 0 pipe([9, 10]) = 0 pipe([11, 12]) = 0 fork() = 3401 close(10) = 0 close(12) = 0 close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) close(-1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) wait4(3401, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 3401 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now [RTMIN]) read(9, "", 8) = 0 read(11, "J\r\0\0", 4) = 4 read(11, "", 0) = 0 read(7, s= I am seeing the following in /var/log/messages: Feb 27 22:46:47 mourne gconfd (amon-3402): starting (version 1.1.8), pid 3402 user 'amon' Feb 27 22:46:47 mourne gconfd (amon-3402): specified class size for type `LINCServer' is smaller than the parent type's `GObject' class size Which makes me presume there is something funny going on with gconfd. Has anyone else had this problem? Note, I am using gdb with afterstep as my wm, the dist is sid and I've got all the GNUstep libs compiled straight out of cvs. I can't see how that would involve Gnome, but just FYI... Please email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I can't keep up with all the various groups... LKML alone could keep me from ever working :-) Assistance would be appreciated... I'm back to stone tools and flint knapping with command line file moves and Netscape browsing.