A few months back, Daniel ran a
full gnome session under Valgrind. He did so with a Fedora 3
system but without debuginfo packages installed. So, I used his
instructions on my cvs build. I found out that it was a royal
pain to sort through all the log files that valgrind generates when
you’re done. So, I didn’t do it again for a long time.
I finally got off my lazy duff and wrote a script to
assist in valgrinding Gnome. This script makes it easy to set
things up so my next sessions would run under valgrind, parse all the
generated logs to chuck out the bad ones and generate
a pretty statistics report, and clean things up and sets things back
to running without valgrind for subsequent logins.
I know, I know. I should have been working on the focus bugs (sorry
for my slowliness Christian in looking at your Epiphany patch–I’ll
get on it soon) or updating the modules that use gnome-desktop to
launch apps but…I’m a volunteer and I do whatever I want. 🙂
Anyway, take a look at the
statistics and the linked-to logs (with line-numbers!) and see if
you can fix anything. You’d be my hero if you could fix the
uninitialized warnings for Metacity, especially the ones that include
the meta_frames_ensure_layout function. 😉