Recent rawhide instability

[darrell pfeifer]

Jay,

I'm running a current rawhide on X86. There are some inline comments...

On 11/11/06, Jay Cliburn <jacliburn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm seeing unstable behavior on my rawhide systems (x86_64) lately, pretty much
> since dbus started segfaulting on October 25
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212303).  This was fixed,
> but I've had this nebulous feeling of instability ever since.
>
> Has anyone else noticed it?  Here are some problems on my systems.
>
> * Thunderbird just coredumped -- three times in a row.  I have core files.  This
> problem is actually what prompted me to send this message.  No bz yet; it just
> now started happening.
>
> * gnome-power-manager crashes and takes hald with it.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214090

Yes. I know that hald has crashed mostly on shutting down when the
message appears. A couple of days ago the gnome bug reporter kept
activating on login and it had something to say about hal, though I
haven't seen that in a couple of days.

>
> * CDs and DVDs no longer automount.  This used to work flawlessly.  I can mount
> them manually, but they no longer show up on my desktop like they used to.  (I
> use gnome/nautilus, and no compiz.)  No bz yet.
>
> * When I insert a USB pendrive, hald segfaults.  I can't find a core file.  How
> do I generate a backtrace for this?  No bz yet.

My usb camera didn't automount.

I tried to print with my usb laser printer and it wasn't seen at all.
>
> usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
> usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 3
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
>    Vendor: LEXAR     Model: JUMPDRIVE SPORT   Rev: 1000
>    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> SCSI device sdb: 2030592 512-byte hdwr sectors (1040 MB)
> sdb: Write Protect is off
> sdb: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sdb: 2030592 512-byte hdwr sectors (1040 MB)
> sdb: Write Protect is off
> sdb: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>   sdb: sdb1
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> hald[1960]: segfault at 0000000000000021 rip 00000039fec74e50 rsp
> 00007fff515e3c08 error 4
>
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I've also had lots of problems with wireless networking not being seen
properly by network manager.

The latest ATI driver is having problems sending output to an external
projector. For a long time it only seemed to work if you booted with
the projector on, then for a while recently it worked just by plugging
the projector in, but now it doesn't work in either case. Reverted
back to the previous version.

After a (long) freeze I always have an expectation of instability.

darrell