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

Fri Jul 27 10:49:51 CEST 2012

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
+