gnome locking up after user login since the mass rebuild

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 13:31:25 -0500,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:25:13 -0600,
>   Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > I haven't seen a report that I recognized as my problem and was hoping an
> > update would fix it, but it has been about a week now.
> > After logging into know and having the too bar show up, it locks up.
> > I can't switch windows, c-a-F? doesn't drop down to a terminal, and
> > clicking on the icons results in a slight color change on the border of
> > the window the first time and then nothing changes after that.
> 
> I still haven't been able to fix this or really figure out what is
> happening. For the time being I will just use the xfce desktop which
> seems to be working.

That didn't turn out to be the answer either. Eventually things broke,
though not as hard as with gnome. At least one of my file systems got
set read only.
My theory now is that using desktop graphics is triggering a kernel
bug. I am going to try out an older kernel and see if I can get it
to work. This may not work too well with later video drivers with the
KMS changes, but seems worth trying out.