F16 - Crashtastic

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:32:18 -0600, RM (Ranjan) wrote:

> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:24:59 -0800, JW (John) wrote:
> > 
> > > My F16 - Gnome box has developed an ugly bug today with the latest 
> > > updates (from updates-testing).
> > >
> > > Randomly, but very frequently, when I close a window, the windowing 
> > > system hangs. I can move the mouse, and ctrl-alt-bksp works to kill X 
> > > and restart GDM. Nothing interesting in the X log file. All other window 
> > > actions like minimize and maximize work fine.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to report a bug, but I'm not sure where to point the finger.  
> > > Can someone suggest a method of identifying the buggy program so I can 
> > > report it?
> > 
> > Too many packages from updates-testing? Or would it be feasible to
> > "yum history undo…" the latest updates and then reapply them in smaller
> > groups to narrow it down?
> > Alternatively, "yum distro-sync --disablerepo=updates-testing" can be
> > helpful to revert, especially if you believe you cannot reproduce the
> > problem prior to installing test-updates.
> > --
> 
> HI,
> 
> Just to mention, I don't download from the updates-testing repo, so how
> will this help?

The original poster, John, mentioned "updates-testing". I replied to his
thread and don't know your particular scenario.

But even if not installing any test updates, you can rollback/uninstall
updates and try to narrow down which one is the culprit. "yum history"
can be helpful.

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