Rawhide is pretty hosed right now

[Vedran Miletić]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.brookline.ma.us
> wrote:

>  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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Is there bugzilla ticket for the gcc bug?

Vedran Miletić
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