[Mageia-dev] Video/X/GL/gnome-shell issues?

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 27 July 2012 02:34, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
> Problems:
> 1. Cannot skip in mplayer (said to be glibc problem)

It is.
It first happens when tmb privately offers me to test glibc-2.16.
Downgrading glibc to 2.14 reliably makes the issue go away.
Of course, it could be a side effect of the new glibc exposing a
bug but...

There's nothing interesting in glibc-2.16 branch.
FC17 works fine with glibc-2.15.

> Usually I can unfreeze X by stopping and starting "dm" (gdm). Sometimes
> I have to reboot or shut the machine down completely (usually when the
> plymouth/gdm background is garbled).
>
> I've updated all the packages, running the latest kernel, latest
> pulseaudio, etc. As driver, I use nouveau driver. I'm guessing glibc is
> to blame, but not sure.
>
> I'll try and use strace on GNOME shell + gnome-settings-daemon (volume
> keys) next time one of them hangs again.

We might try to update again our mesa snapshot.
There've been recent bug fixes such as for this crasher:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47375