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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