Rawhide is pretty hosed right now
Jonathan Kamens
jik at kamens.brookline.ma.us
Sun Jun 21 19:05:46 UTC 2009
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: firefox
crashes <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506952> (can be
fixed by downgrading to older xulrunner), GIMP hangs when you try to use
the dodge / burn tool
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507170>, the GIMP
help-browser plugin crashes
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507168>, the applet icon
for gnome-volume-control-applet is corrupt
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507120>, the applet icon
for the system-config-printer applet is messed up
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507119>, vino was crashing
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505967> (although this
particular problem seems to be fixed in newest rawhide package),
/usr/lib/sa/sadc is crashing
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505670>.
In addition, the rawhide kernel is reporting tons of "list_add
corruption" call traces in the dmesg output
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507161>, 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.
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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
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.
Thanks,
jik
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