Re: Gnome-2.8 stoped working on kernel-2.6.9-rc4-mm1

[Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:38:19 +0200, Stef van der Made <svdmade@planet.nl> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get kernel-2.6.9-rc4-mm1 to work with gnome-2.8. While
> 2.6.9-rc4 works fine with gnome-2.8 the mm1 version has an issue. Any
> process that I'm trying to start that uses gnome libraries crashes
> immediatly after startup. Mozilla, nautilus and gnome terminal to name a
> few. The reason for using mm1 is that I'm using reiser4 for one of my
> partitions.
> 
> The output that I get in bugbuddy is as following:
> 
> Backtrace was generated from '/usr/test/garnome2/lib/nautilus'
> 
> <snip>
This was useless, w/o any information.
Next time please compile with debugging (-g) and without
-fomit-frame-pointer. (in case of gcc <3.5)

> 
> And on the terminal that I started X windows:
> 
> "/usr/test/garnome2/lib/nautilus": not in executable format: Is a directory
> /home/stef/405: No such file or directory.
> /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 423:   460 Segmentation
> fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
> <snip>
> /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 423:   483 Segmentation
> fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
> 

Looks like you need to back out this patch, the root of all evil:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/broken-out/optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch
like this:
cd linux-2.6.9-rc4-mm1
patch -p1 -R < /download-dir/optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch