f11 X "hang"

[David L]

I'm having a strange problem where X is kinda sorta
hanging... I can move the mouse and the keyboard
is responsive to changes in caps lock, but I can't
switch workspaces or select a new window or do
anything useful from my X session.  The way I'm
getting into this state is to do this:

strace ekiga

When I do this, I see a bunch of strace output
but the ekiga window never pops up and I can't
do anything until I ssh into the system and kill
ekiga.  The last thing I see in the strace is this:


poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1)   = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLIN}])
read(13, "\34\3\263\0\4\0
\6f\1\0\0C\202\f\r\0\365l\n\240\303]\tLA\374\277\n\0\0\0"..., 4096) =
32
read(13, 0x93f4218, 4096)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=13, revents=POLLOUT}])
writev(13, [{"\31\0\v\0\3\0\340\2\0\0\0\0!
\0\0\3\0\340\2\33\1\0\0C\202\f\r\0\0\0\0\4"..., 48}, {NULL, 0},
{""..., 0}], 3) = 48
poll([{fd=13, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1


It's not that big a deal... I don't really need to
strace ekiga.  I was just doing that to get a
clue where it might be reading user preferences
from.  But it's a weird problem that I thought
I'd throw out there to see if anybody knows
what's going on.

Thanks...

               David