Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

[Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de>]

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On 13.07.2012 17:24, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan"
> <contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@poluan.info>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés"
>>> <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur
>>>> randomly, or can you reproduce them? Same with PulseAudio.
>>>> 
>> 
>> Yeah gnome shell. There are no traces about segfaults in dmesg
>> for gnome
> shell crashes. It happens whenever I open more than 3 windows in
> one single virtual desktop (activity).
>> 
>> About pulseaudio, it works, but I always see segfault message
>> from the
> equalizer module in dmesg.
>> 
>>>> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging
>>>> 
>>>> Have you tried don what this page instructs?
>>>> 
>> 
>> Will try that if it crashes after the current rebuild (dual core
>> 2 ghz,
> takes lot of time).
>> 
>>>> I've been using GNOME 3 since May last year. No major
>>>> problems so far.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 90% of NREs (Non Reproducible Errors) are caused by hardware
>>> problems.
>>> 
>>> MemTest, albeit a good and thorough diagnostic utility, only
>>> checks for
> memory problem.
>>> 
>>> It is likely that some other component on the OP's mainboard
>>> is
> failing; a component that lies outside the datapath exercised
> directly or indirectly by MemTest.
>>> 
>>> Rgds,
>> 
>> What component could it be? Or is there some way to dig in?
> 
> Could be anything, actually. Perhaps the Southbridge (or whatever
> its nom de jour is) which IIRC handles the sound system. (Because
> Pulseaudio is also having trouble).
> 
> Rgds,
> 

I have similar problems with pulseaudio (seemingly random crashes
since the update to 2.0) though I haven't had time to debug it due to
exams right now.

WKR
Hinnerk

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