Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 17 April 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> Does *anyone* have an idea what I should do to debug this further? >>> I've never managed to get good backtrace info under Gentoo so that's >>> probably a struggle I'd rather not deal with if possible, especially >>> for something as complicated as X. The segfault looks like something >>> uninitialized to me but what do I know... (Not much!) >>> >>> I can send all sorts of machine/Gentoo info if requested. >>> >>> Anyway, all thoughts appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mark >>> >> I don't know if you have been following my recent thread or not but what >> version of gcc are you using? I was using gcc 4.3 and I am having >> multiple issues with a lot of things. I can't compile a kernel of if it >> compiles some things don't work, sound for example. Seamonkey crashes >> at times for no reason. I also had trouble with the new xorg-server >> crashing with me. Also, my camera and printer, which are USB, were no >> longer found. >> >> To fix this, I went back to gcc 4.1 and started a emerge -ev world. As >> things are being recompiled, things are getting back to normal. I'm not >> saying this will fix your issue but it may be something to consider if >> you are using gcc 4.3. So far, my camera and printer is back, I can >> compile a kernel with no errors and Seamonkey is being compiled as I type. >> >> Just something for you to ponder. Maybe when you have ran out of other >> ideas. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > Installed versions: 4.3.3-r2(4.3)!s(01:52:54 29.03.2009)(fortran > mudflap > multilib nls openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -gcj -gtk - > hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -libffi -multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc - > objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) > > are you sure its gcc and not the kernel you are using? > > > >
Yep, as soon as I switched back and recompiled things, they started working again. So far, things are getting back to normal and I am about half way though my emerge -ev world. I am booting the same kernel that I have been using for over a year. One reason I have not upgraded my kernel is the fact that gcc wouldn't compile a stable kernel. It would either error during the compile or things would not work even tho it should. Most of the time it would not finish a compile. This may not be your problem but given what I have been through, I thought it worth a mention. If you run out of other ideas, switch back to a older gcc then emerge -ev mythtv or whatever you need to do to test this theory. If that fixes it, then we know that gcc 4.3 has a "issue" somewhere. I hope you get it fixed either way. Dale :-) :-)
