Looking and the trace report I found that it is looking for files that somehow got remove, would this be the cause of the issue? since it is not really crashing I ran Strace, it just keeps working in the background even after the GUI window has been closed consuming 80 to 90% of CPU power.
Thanks ** Attachment added: "strace-gnome-appearance.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11403520/strace-gnome-appearance.log -- gnome-appearanc stais running after closing window https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs