Re: newbie user problems with panel and gmc

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  o) gmc has twice _completely_ crashed my system from userspace.  Since gmc
>  is threaded I think gmc is actually tickling either a glibc or kernel bug
>  in its thread implementation.  

GMC is not threaded.  I wonder how you came to this conclusion.

>  When this happens, not only do I lose my console, but the system
>  refuses to spawn new processes.  This prevents me from logging in
>  over my net and safely shutting the system down.  Interesting thing
>  also: gmc often just crashes outright leaving a core dump on my
>  desktop (love that yellow bomb :-) ), but often when I try to
>  delete the core dump by right clicking and selecting delete it just
>  crashes gmc again leaving me with another bomb.  Hell, just
>  _breathing_ on gmc seems to cause application crashes.

Are you running the pixmap theme?

  Federico