Comment 11 for bug 180087

I was still facing this issue, even on Hardy.

It did not occur until I made Hardy use my old home dir, which led me to believe the problem lied in .icons. Which it did. If I removed the Tango dir in frank/.icons it worked again. I have been able to reproduce this for another home user.

Upon investigation it seems as if that Tango dir contained weird icons. It seems to be some problem with links (the file system kind). I am not sure how I would archive this directory in order to have someone else be able to manipulate it, since archiving it would vanquish the links. Any suggestions for how I could help someone else replicate this would be appreciated. Possibly some kind of "ls" output that would allow someone to replicate the links?

This would appear to be some sort of fluke, so not really an important bug (how many people have weird links in their icons directories?) but still, Gnome-System-Monitor or the mechanism that loads these icons should be able to survive in case of issues like this and not break. This is especially the case since apparently even if I use a different theme than that Tango theme (which had the broken icon) the icon would affect it. This suggests other problems. Those icons should not break eachother.

In any case, deleting the icon for my home dir made me at least able to use my system monitor.