[gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

[Michael Higgins]

I use Gnome ['gnome-light'] as my WM.

For the past few months (many months) I've had the 'gnome-panel' lock
up on me. Nothing is clearly causing this. Rebuilding has not seemed to
help. Of course, what to rebuild? Everything?

I've adopted the strategy of kill -INT and (next time) kill -HUP (and
repeat). This gets me working again 98% of the time. This is slightly
better than rebooting every time you have a problem. Slightly.

So, of course I have a lot of questions. Anyone know what is going on?
Anyone know how I can find out what is going on? Adding a gig and a
half of ram didn't change the behaviour. Changing video cards didn't
either.

(And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have
customization that will disappear. Again.)

Finally, I'd like to just get the PID of gnome panel in a one-liner to
send to kill, if I can't get this fixed. Can anyone volunteer a
"gimme only the PID" one-liner?

[ And why does it always complain about not finding GDM... when was that
required? I've never used it, nor wanted it. I want the warnings to go
away! ]

Any replies appreciated.

Cheers,

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