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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:53:53
Message-Id: 87y527o43l.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2
3 > On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to
6 >> 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought
7 >> the new kernel would just work.
8 >>
9 >> However gdm failed, with several pairs of messages
10 >>
11 >> Jan 22 17:04:49 localhost gdm[276]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion
12 > `object->ref_count > 0' failed.
13 >> Jan 22 17:04:49 localhost gdm[276]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref:
14 > assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed.
15 >>
16 >> Has anyone had a similar problem, and perhaps a fix? Since 3.10.17
17 >> works fine for me, my current plan is to wait for the next stable
18 >> kernel ebuild to hit and hope that one is better
19 >>
20 >> thanks,
21 >
22 > Really? It works with one kernel, but not the other?
23
24 Surprised me too. I does "work", i.e. the system boots and I can use
25 the text terminals, but gdm is a nogo
26
27 > Are you sure both kernels boot with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd?
28
29 I think so. For one thing the output I included is from journalctl.
30 This system is grub1 and here is grub.conf
31
32 default 0
33 timeout 10
34 splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
35
36 title Gentoo Linux (vmlinuz)
37 root (hd0,2)
38 kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
39
40 title Gentoo Linux, Previous Compilation (vmlinuz.old)
41 root (hd0,2)
42 kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda3 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
43
44 title Gentoo Linux, known working (vmlinuz.works)
45 root (hd0,2)
46 kernel /boot/vmlinuz.works root=/dev/sda3 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd single
47
48 title Windows Vista
49 rootnoverify (hd0,1)
50 makeactive
51 chainloader +1
52
53 All I change is the target of /boot/vmlinuz, System.map, and config
54
55 allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gentoo-sources-3.10.25 and gnome "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>