On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:28 +0100, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
Hmph, a tough one, especially since you seem to seeing this on a range of machines whereas I have never seen it on any of mine.
Here's my braindump of everything that could be involved, ordered from maybe to probably not (I know that you've already ruled some of this out, just bear with me)
In going through your excellent and very much appreciated list, I noticed that a common complaint made by the plasma-windowed commands was: Cannot initialize zlib, because: Unknown error Which seemed an curious thing. I remember Will saying that some things were uncompressed and cached, and maybe the cache was having access issues. Well, in a way the cache was the problem: components that needed to be uncompressed before getting put in the cache could not even be made. It seems that an experimental libz (based on code from intel's excellent Performance Primitives library) has crept in to our distribution. We only enable our software for non-root users who opt for it. So, root never saw the library, which explains why the desktop looked fine for root. It is in some private folder in /opt. But, our users do see this library. When I removed the library from view, the desktop looked as expected. Now to see why that library is being distributed. I know that it should offer a significant increase in compression speed, and we compress all our collected data. But obviously we never intended for any software other than our own to use it. Even if it is a drop-in replacement for libz. It is only a drop-in replacement if the Intel Performance Primitive libraries are also available. But these sorts of problems I know how to deal with.
Hope this helps,
Tejas
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