On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 segv@netctl.net wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:15:18 +0100
> segv@netctl.net wrote:
>
>> Hi, after upgrading all my applications to the latest version from the recent
>> pkgsrc tree, I noticed that GTK applications sometimes die with SEGV, the
>> "fix" is to reboot the system so that everything in memory is cleared and
>> reloaded.
>>
>
> OK here is one example of what happens: I booted the system and Sylpheed (a GTK
> application) would not start, i.e. no matter what I did it would die with SEGV,
> generating a core file. After the reboot it was working fine.
>
> Next time I rebooted, the Xfce4 window manager died in a similar way
>
> As I said previously, I ran memtest86 for several hours, it didn't find any
> problems.
>
> The machine is running NetBSD-3.0_BETA, everything was working fine, until I
> upgradded all my applications to the latest versions from pkgsrc.

 	As a check could you see if you have gconfd, oafd, or any similar
 	gnome daemons running - if so, try killing those and restarting
 	the app. Generally they will survive restarting the X server...
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