Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

[Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@nileshgr.com>]

On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>> On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <gentoo-user@hadt.biz
>>> <mailto:gentoo-user@hadt.biz>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have
>>> gone
>>> > > unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start
>>> (I see a
>>> > > segfault by the equalizer module).
>>> >
>>> > I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render
>>> > errors to system freezes. So in a desperate move I unmasked gnome3.4
>>> > (from the overlay) and installed it. Installing (and maintaining)
>>> 3.4 is
>>> > a bit hairy, but all my problems have gone since that.
>>> >
>>> > So if recompiling with O2 does not help, and you don't mind bleeding
>>> > edge packages on your system, try 3.4
>>> >
>>>
>>> Already on gnome 3.4, unmasked from default portage, no overlay.
>>>
>>> Complete rebuild over with O2, still getting these errors:
>>>
>>> Http://bpaste.net/show/34934
>>>
>>
>> It seems I was using only gnome-shell 3.4 and did not update others.
>> Now I unmasked 3.4 completely (gnome-base/*, gnome-extra/*).
>> It's much more stable than 3.2, except for the two faults I pasted
>> above.
>>
>> Watching this thing now for crashes, will post update soon.
>>
>
> And boo.. it crashed just after writing the previous mail. Upto 3
> windows on the single workspace was good, with 4 it crashed. :|
>
> No faults reported in dmesg though.
>
> Is my video card incompetent?
>

I'm compelled to concolude that GNOME3 simply does not work on 4-5 year 
old hardware. Yeah, on a Dual Core 2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and i945 128 MB.

I'm back to my cozy place, KDE and alsaequal (instead of pulseaudio).

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Nilesh Govindrajan
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