On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Jonathan Kamens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us">jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It appears that there was a gcc bug in rawhide for long enough to hose
quite a few packages when they got recompiled. For example: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506952" target="_blank">firefox
crashes</a> (can be fixed by downgrading to older xulrunner), <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507170" target="_blank">GIMP hangs
when you try to use the dodge / burn tool</a>, the <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507168" target="_blank">GIMP
help-browser plugin crashes</a>, the <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507120" target="_blank">applet icon
for gnome-volume-control-applet is corrupt</a>, the <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507119" target="_blank">applet icon
for the system-config-printer applet is messed up</a>, <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505967" target="_blank">vino was
crashing</a> (although this particular problem seems to be fixed in
newest rawhide package), <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505670" target="_blank">/usr/lib/sa/sadc
is crashing</a>.<br>
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In addition, the rawhide kernel is reporting <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507161" target="_blank">tons of
"list_add corruption" call traces in the dmesg output</a>, and as far
as I can tell this may actually be causing some applications to
malfunction -- I saw Picasa, for example, behaving in weird ways that
seemed to stop happening when I switched to an older kernel without
this problem.<br>
<br>
The links above are to all the tickets I and others have filed in
bugzilla about these issues. But there are two serious issues about
which I haven't filed tickets because I'm unsure how to categorize them:<br>
<ol>
<li>Even when I'm not actually doing anything on my system that
should be causing significant load, the load average hovers between
around 1.5 and 2.5. Until recently, when I wasn't doing anything
actively, the load average stuck pretty close to 0, where it should be.</li>
<li>Audio is pretty hosed. First, none of the devices in /dev/snd
were owned by me even though I'm logged in on the console, so I
couldn't get any audio at all. I changed them to be owned by me, but
then I had to do all sorts of fiddling with alsamixer -c0 just to get
sound to come out of xmms. It's not a good scene.</li>
</ol>
Just giving people a heads up that upgrading to rawhide right now seems
a bit risky. If you have any advice for me on how to mitigate any of
these issues, I'm all ears.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
jik<br>
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