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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:36:41
Message-Id: 50011309.9080406@nileshgr.com
1 On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
2 > On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
3 >> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
4 >>> On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <gentoo-user@××××.biz
5 >>> <mailto:gentoo-user@××××.biz>> wrote:
6 >>> >
7 >>> > > Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have
8 >>> gone
9 >>> > > unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start
10 >>> (I see a
11 >>> > > segfault by the equalizer module).
12 >>> >
13 >>> > I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render
14 >>> > errors to system freezes. So in a desperate move I unmasked gnome3.4
15 >>> > (from the overlay) and installed it. Installing (and maintaining)
16 >>> 3.4 is
17 >>> > a bit hairy, but all my problems have gone since that.
18 >>> >
19 >>> > So if recompiling with O2 does not help, and you don't mind bleeding
20 >>> > edge packages on your system, try 3.4
21 >>> >
22 >>>
23 >>> Already on gnome 3.4, unmasked from default portage, no overlay.
24 >>>
25 >>> Complete rebuild over with O2, still getting these errors:
26 >>>
27 >>> Http://bpaste.net/show/34934
28 >>>
29 >>
30 >> It seems I was using only gnome-shell 3.4 and did not update others.
31 >> Now I unmasked 3.4 completely (gnome-base/*, gnome-extra/*).
32 >> It's much more stable than 3.2, except for the two faults I pasted
33 >> above.
34 >>
35 >> Watching this thing now for crashes, will post update soon.
36 >>
37 >
38 > And boo.. it crashed just after writing the previous mail. Upto 3
39 > windows on the single workspace was good, with 4 it crashed. :|
40 >
41 > No faults reported in dmesg though.
42 >
43 > Is my video card incompetent?
44 >
45
46 I'm compelled to concolude that GNOME3 simply does not work on 4-5 year
47 old hardware. Yeah, on a Dual Core 2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and i945 128 MB.
48
49 I'm back to my cozy place, KDE and alsaequal (instead of pulseaudio).
50
51 ***thread closed***
52
53 --
54 Nilesh Govindrajan
55 http://nileshgr.com

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