Bug 358897

Summary:	Basic GNOME apps not starting properly after world update / strace shows lots of "-1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)" messages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Torsten Kurbad <torsten>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Torsten Kurbad 2011-03-14 15:32:14 UTC

A while ago, I upgraded to GNOME 2.32, which went considerably smooth.

But after doing an

emerge -NDuv world

just recently, none of the "basic" Gnome apps, like nautilus, metacity, gnome-panel, gnome-terminal, etc., seem to work any more.

strace shows lots of messages, like

read(3, 0xXXXXXXXX, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

while the application window appears, but stays "empty".

I did all necessary revdep-rebuilds, my kernel is up to date (2.6.37-gentoo-r2) and has all the necessary options enabled, I even issued an emerge -e world during the weekend. Everything compiled without problems. 

Am I missing something obvious here?

I will attach an exemplary strace output and my emerge --info...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Torsten Kurbad 2011-03-14 15:39:43 UTC

Sorry guys, false alarm. I had an error in my /etc/hosts file...

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-03-14 21:13:04 UTC

Next time would probably better to try to ask in forums.gentoo.org before filing a bug report ;-)

Comment 3 Torsten Kurbad 2011-03-14 22:50:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Next time would probably better to try to ask in forums.gentoo.org before
> filing a bug report ;-)

I'll keep that in mind! :-)