[Edgy] Gaim hangs on start, no windows displayed, no crash log

[mathew]

Binary package hint: gaim

Gaim has suddenly started hanging when I attempt to start it. I've tried removing my ~/.gaim directory and starting it from the console window, but I get no output, no GUI window, no crash, nothing in syslog. It just sits there as a stopped process until I kill it.

If anyone has any suggestions for how I might find out WTF is going on, I'd appreciate them.

[mathew (meta23)]

OK, I've noticed gvim has developed the same problem. When I ^C gvim after it hangs, it says:

(vim:17144): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
IO error occured opening connection.

So I'm thinking this is some kind of GNOME crapulence.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you get a backtrace (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace) when starting it? Do you need to use words like "GNOME crapulence" to describe your problem, better to stay correct with people working on the problems you describe

[mathew (meta23)]

I restarted the system, and now everything works again.

(Frankly, I'm planning to switch back to KDE next Ubuntu release, as I don't want Mono on my system and GNOME now includes Mono.)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing then if it works fine now. Feel free to use whatever desktop environment or OS or application you prefer, nothing force you to use mono to GNOME though, tomboy is using it and that's about it, nothing force you to install it

[mathew (meta23)]

Tomboy, F-stop and Beagle all use Mono, and Mono is a dependency of ubuntu-desktop.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is several apps using GTK#, that doesn't mean they are shipped with GNOME. Nothing force you to keep ubuntu-desktop installed, anyway no something to argue about