Hi Alan,
On Wednesday, 12. October 2011 21:36:58 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> >> If it is related to the video card/driver that you use, try reemerging
> >> cogl and clutter; it doesn't matter that a world upgrade don't want to
> >> reemerge it, sometimes the ebuilds change without changing versions.
> >> My versions and useflags of cogl and clutter are:
> >>
> >> # emerge -1pv clutter cogl
> >>
> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >>
> >> Calculating dependencies ... done!
> >> [ebuild R ~] media-libs/cogl-1.8.0 USE="doc examples
> >> introspection pango -debug -test" 0 kB [1]
> >> [ebuild R ~] media-libs/clutter-1.8.0 USE="doc introspection
> >> -debug" 0 kB [1]
> >
> > I had remerged clutter earlier today and just did cogl. Mu use flags
> > are basically the same as yours
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > [ebuild R ] media-libs/clutter-1.8.0 USE="introspection -debug
> > -doc" 0 kB [1] [ebuild R ] media-libs/cogl-1.8.0
> > USE="introspection pango -debug -doc -examples -test" 0 kB [1]
> >
> > I am using the same driver as you but a different version (mine is one
> > newer) and I don't have the sna use flag. I might not have access to
> > the machine an longer today, but will try.
> >
> > thanks,
> > allan
>
> I forgot to say that with the remerged clutter and cogl, gdm still
> crashes.
>
> I just rebuilt the driver downgraded to 2.15.0-r1. I specified sna in
> package.use but still it was merged without it.
>
> This configuration still has gdm crashing
>
> [U] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
> Available versions: 2.8.1 2.9.1 (~)2.10.0-r1 (~)2.11.0 2.13.0 2.14.0
> 2.15.0-r1 (~)2.16.0 {debug dri sna} Installed versions: 2.15.0-r1(09:27:44
> PM 10/12/2011)(dri)
> Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
to rule out the video-stack, I'd try gnome in fallback-mode. If it works,
chances are your problem is video-related. If it still crashes, the problem is
elsewhere.
Is there something in dmesg related to the gnome-shell segfaults?
> allan
Best,
Michael
