Just had the same issue here. A reboot didn't fix it but as the OP
found, using strace, it was crashing when it couldn't find an icon.
Terminal.svg was missing but didn't solve it. In my case, it couldn't
find picard.xpm (a music tagger) and was aborting. It ran fine as root,
for whatever reason.
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-server
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(strace output)
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gettimeofday({1241311848, 215515}, NULL) = 0
lstat64("/usr/share/pixmaps/picard.xpm", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=13,
...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/pixmaps/picard.xpm", 0xbfa4b4f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/picard.xpm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
write(2, "terminate called after throwing "..., 48terminate called after
throwing an instance of ') = 48
write(2, "Gio::Error", 10Gio::Error) = 10
write(2, "\'\n", 2'
) = 2
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
tgkill(17164, 17164, SIGABRT) = 0
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGABRT +++
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Gnome-system-monitor crashes due to missing icon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351754
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