F16 - Crashtastic

[John Wendel]

On 02/17/2012 01:34 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.
>
I backed out all the updates and re-installed them one at a time ( 
thanks Michael ), testing after each one. Of course, now I can't 
reproduce the problem.  Is it possible that I picked up a fixed version 
of GTK3?  Oh well, I'm working again, so I should be happy.

Thanks!

John