Thanks Adam... On a slightly different but still a little connected topic... just how resistent to viruses/virii is LINUX namely UBUNTU 11.04???
I have reverted to this version from 11.10 as I prefer all the widgets... Am using the KDE desktop although it does run a little slower than the GDE DT... Are there are hints etc that you may be able to offer about keeping all the dangerous things out??? regards arthur On 02/23/2012 05:16 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: > Sad to say, folks, that I've been seeing this bug VERY intermittently on > multiple generations of hardware, although I think I can safely make these > assertions: > -only since GTK became widespread (this definitely did not occur back in the > Athena, Motif, OpenWindows, etc. days) > **specifically, I don't think I've ever seen this bug appear when I wasn't > running GTK+-linked or GTK2-linked software** > -only since GL extensions became widespread (including software, e.g. MESA) > -mostly but not exclusively on Linux systems (at least once under Solaris > shortly after GNOME became the default desktop) > -some (hardware) systems tended to produce this error more than others > -certain applications tend to cause it more often than others (notably > Synaptic, per the Ubuntu reports) > -I *think* higher compiler optimization causes it to happen more often, not > sure > -not exclusively on multiprocessor systems: I've definitely seen this error > on a Pentium III 1.0GHz (ULV mobile) and a Sparc IIi (~400MHz?). > > It's almost certainly a race condition, since nothing else would produce this > sort of intermittent behaviour across 10+ years and multiple hardware > platforms. > It may not be a regression - it's likely we're dealing with a design flaw > that has existed since<some piece of code> was written, but is being > triggered more and more often because of the proliferation of multiprocessor > platforms with multithreaded libs and multithread-generating-compilers. > > Unfortunately, this all means that finding it will be nearly impossible. > So much for the "all bugs are shallow" theory :-). > > Or it could just be something low-level in GTK, which would explain why > it's been cropping up more and more. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507062 Title: synaptic assert failure: synaptic: ../../src/xcb_io.c:385: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xlibs/+bug/507062/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
