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On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan |
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> <contact@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone |
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> > unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start (I see |
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> > segfault by the equalizer module). |
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> > My graphic card is on board i945 and I have set mesa to classic mode on |
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> > and i915 families. |
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> > I partially belive that this is because of -O3 in my make.conf, but |
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> > compiling a few packages using -O2 didn't do much good either. Moreover, |
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> > I've been using kde with -O3 since 2011 and never had such a problem. |
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> > Nevertheless, I'm rebuilding everything with -O2 (emerge -e system, |
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emerge |
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> > -e world) with gcc 4.7 (no lto) just to see if that fixes the trouble. |
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> > I have memtested and there's absolutely no problem with the RAM. |
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> > What do you guys suggest? |
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> By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur randomly, or can |
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> you reproduce them? Same with PulseAudio. |
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> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging |
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> Have you tried don what this page instructs? |
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> I've been using GNOME 3 since May last year. No major problems so far. |
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90% of NREs (Non Reproducible Errors) are caused by hardware problems. |
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MemTest, albeit a good and thorough diagnostic utility, only checks for |
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memory problem. |
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It is likely that some other component on the OP's mainboard is failing; a |
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component that lies outside the datapath exercised directly or indirectly |
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by MemTest. |
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Rgds, |
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