metacity2.14.5 under etch: keyboard lockup when opening a window



Hi,

I use gnome+metacity in etch.

I am experiencing random lockups of the display since a few hours. Opening a window seems to trigger this. So far it has happened when launching gvim, iceweasel and gnome-terminal (not everytime). What happens in such cases is that the newly opened window is left without the window-manger's borders. Keyboard locks up. Mouse responds to motion, but mouse-clicks do not work. I am able to ssh from a remote machine and kill metacity which seems to bring everything back to normal.

There does not seem to be any bug filed against metacity at bugs.debian.org, so I am not sure if it related to metacity.

The only change I have made to the system today is to upgrade icedove to the testing release and install qemu.

Has anybody experienced a similar problem? Is there something I might have done that is causing this?

Thanks,
Raj Kiran

PS: Recent packages in last 2 days as reported by dpkg-www

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
+++-==============================-======================
ii bochsbios 2.3-2etch1
ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6
ii dash 0.5.3-7
ii debmirror 20060907.1
rc glabels 2.1.3-1
ii gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.12.1-1
ii icedove 2.0.0.6-1
ii icedove-gnome-support 2.0.0.6-1
ii iceweasel 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
ii iceweasel-gnome-support 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
ii initrd-tools 0.1.84.2
ii libcupsys2 1.3.2-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1
ii libgtk2.0-common 2.12.1-1
ii libgtk2.0-dev 2.12.1-1
ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2
ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-1
ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-1
ii libxdamage-dev 1.1.1-3
ii libxdamage1 1.1.1-3
ii openhackware 0.4.1-2
rc openoffice.org-base 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-calc 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-core 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-gcj 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-impress 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-math 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
rc openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3
rc openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
ii proll 18-2
ii python-wxgtk2.6 2.6.3.2.2-1
ii qemu 0.8.2-4etch1
ii systemimager-doc 3.6.3dfsg1-3
ii vgabios 0.6a-1
ii x11proto-damage-dev 1.1.0-2

38 packages


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