gnome weirdness after running for a while

[Antony Gelberg]

Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> List,
> 
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone else experience a little bit of
> weirdness in Gnome (2.12.1, Breezy) after it has been running for a
> while? In particular, what I am referring to is that certain programs
> (usually settings type programs) won't open. 
> 
> More concretely, say I am trying to run gnome-theme-manager. When I
> start it the "normal" way a la the System->Preferences menu, the
> window list bar lists "Starting Theme Manager" for a few seconds, with
> nothing coming up, then the window list item disappears. If I try to
> run gnome-theme-manager from the command line, absolutely nothing
> happens: No errors, no segfaults, no warnings; literally, nothing.
> 
> This only tends to happen if Gnome has been running for a while (read:
> A couple of days or more). Is this a 2.12 bug, or is it something
> else?
> 
> This really isn't a major issue, just a slight annoyance as I hate
> having to restart X for such a trivial issue.

I'm no Gnome guru, but perhaps you could run one of the commands under
strace and post the output?  It would also be useful to see a list of
specific programs that are affected.

But first, you may wish to search the BTS.