Rawhide is pretty hosed right now

[Jonathan Kamens]

It appears that there was a gcc bug in rawhide for long enough to hose 
quite a few packages when they got recompiled.  For example: firefox 
crashes <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506952> (can be 
fixed by downgrading to older xulrunner), GIMP hangs when you try to use 
the dodge / burn tool 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507170>, the GIMP 
help-browser plugin crashes 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507168>, the applet icon 
for gnome-volume-control-applet is corrupt 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507120>, the applet icon 
for the system-config-printer applet is messed up 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507119>, vino was crashing 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505967> (although this 
particular problem seems to be fixed in newest rawhide package), 
/usr/lib/sa/sadc is crashing 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505670>.

In addition, the rawhide kernel is reporting tons of "list_add 
corruption" call traces in the dmesg output 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507161>, and as far as I 
can tell this may actually be causing some applications to malfunction 
-- I saw Picasa, for example, behaving in weird ways that seemed to stop 
happening when I switched to an older kernel without this problem.

The links above are to all the tickets I and others have filed in 
bugzilla about these issues.  But there are two serious issues about 
which I haven't filed tickets because I'm unsure how to categorize them:

   1. Even when I'm not actually doing anything on my system that should
      be causing significant load, the load average hovers between
      around 1.5 and 2.5.  Until recently, when I wasn't doing anything
      actively, the load average stuck pretty close to 0, where it
      should be.
   2. Audio is pretty hosed.  First, none of the devices in /dev/snd
      were owned by me even though I'm logged in on the console, so I
      couldn't get any audio at all.  I changed them to be owned by me,
      but then I had to do all sorts of fiddling with alsamixer -c0 just
      to get sound to come out of xmms.  It's not a good scene.

Just giving people a heads up that upgrading to rawhide right now seems 
a bit risky.  If you have any advice for me on how to mitigate any of 
these issues, I'm all ears.

Thanks,

   jik

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