Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On Jul 13, 2012 9:07 PM, "Hinnerk van Bruinehsen" <
h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de> wrote:
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> On 13.07.2012 17:24, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan"
> > <contact@××××××××.com> wrote:
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> >> On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés"
> >>> <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur
> >>>> randomly, or can you reproduce them? Same with PulseAudio.
> >>>>
> >>
> >> Yeah gnome shell. There are no traces about segfaults in dmesg
> >> for gnome
> > shell crashes. It happens whenever I open more than 3 windows in
> > one single virtual desktop (activity).
> >>
> >> About pulseaudio, it works, but I always see segfault message
> >> from the
> > equalizer module in dmesg.
> >>
> >>>> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you tried don what this page instructs?
> >>>>
> >>
> >> Will try that if it crashes after the current rebuild (dual core
> >> 2 ghz,
> > takes lot of time).
> >>
> >>>> I've been using GNOME 3 since May last year. No major
> >>>> problems so far.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 90% of NREs (Non Reproducible Errors) are caused by hardware
> >>> problems.
> >>>
> >>> MemTest, albeit a good and thorough diagnostic utility, only
> >>> checks for
> > memory problem.
> >>>
> >>> It is likely that some other component on the OP's mainboard
> >>> is
> > failing; a component that lies outside the datapath exercised
> > directly or indirectly by MemTest.
> >>>
> >>> Rgds,
> >>
> >> What component could it be? Or is there some way to dig in?
> >
> > Could be anything, actually. Perhaps the Southbridge (or whatever
> > its nom de jour is) which IIRC handles the sound system. (Because
> > Pulseaudio is also having trouble).
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
>
> I have similar problems with pulseaudio (seemingly random crashes
> since the update to 2.0) though I haven't had time to debug it due to
> exams right now.
>
> WKR
> Hinnerk
>

And what about segfaults in conftest and libglib? Happened sometime ago.
Http://bpaste.net/show/34833

Would a complete fresh install of gentoo do any good? There are still some
200+ packages left to build.

Also, can it be by chance a loose connection in some of the component?

<offtopic>
I got a new adata ssd recently and this is getting bad now. Though it has 3
year warranty, but still I wanted to keep it as long as possible. With this
many number of writes it would die soon. Probably on 1 day past when the
3rd year ends as it usually happens.
</offtopic>

I've got so addicted to gentoo's customization that it was even hard to
install arch from where I entered the world of rolling release distros.