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

Mon Jul 23 22:23:11 CEST 2012

Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:
+
+[...]
+
+>>>> I'm having issues with X due to intel drivers. Gnome-shell crashes
+>>>> frequently with "out of space" errors in some intel thing which smells
+>>>> to me like something leaking textures.
+>>>
+>>> Should be fixed by the new driver I pushed this morning
+>> 
+>> I'm using nouveau though.
+>> 
+>> For me I can pretty easily make the system become problematic. Most
+>> reliably is by using a video player (usually mplayer, but also in
+>> totem). For one by skipping ahead in the video. Another is that pausing
+>> doesn't really work.
+>> 
+>> Even e.g. closing tabs in Firefox sometimes locks up. Eventually firefox
+>> recovers.
+>
+> Yeah I've still got fmutex locks in gnome-shell (totally frozen UI until
+> a kill -9 which quite freqnently results in a respawn with a similarly
+> frozen UI) and it does sometimes just crash and restart itself at
+> random. Also seen similar problems to those you describe with firefox too.
+>
+> I'm tempted to blame mesa to some degree, but no real evidence :)
+
+There was indeed a refcount fix
+(c3bc41011f9ffe648b7dd4915c6202b776cd1ab4) in mesa that I did not have in
+my snapshot.
+I am updating it.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+