Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

[darrell pfeifer]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:42, Lennart Poettering<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 30.07.09 15:40, Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:00 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> > On Thu, 30.07.09 21:25, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:12:25PM +0200, nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net wrote:
>> > > > > but X / GNOME is still severely broken.
>> > > >
>> > > > GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now
>> > > >
>> > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01500.html
>> > >
>> > > It was pulseaudio BTW.
>> >
>> > Oh my. PA's not at fault here. PI mutexes are broken in the rawhide
>> > kernel/glibc. It's simply PA which triggers that.
>>
>> This would explain why I'm not seeing it - I'm still on kernel 2.6.30,
>> as my wireless driver won't build with 2.6.31.
>
> This is supposed to be fixed now in glibc 2.10.90-10 and later.
>

Yes, with glibc-2.10.90-11 libcanberra has stopped looping and gnome
seems to have returned to normal. (kernel 2.6.31-0.94.rc4.fc12)

darrell