gaim problems in 2.6.0

gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
under 2.4.X kernel.

[Ugh, I was running with kgdb, but I recall same problem before, too.]

Does anyone have similar problem?
								Pavel
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Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Justin Pryzby]

I'm running gaim .74 on 2.6.0, with
        Driver      "ati"
        BoardName   "Rage 128 Mobility LF"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option     "AGPMode"       "2".
No problems here.
(Linux andromeda 2.6.0 #70 Fri Jan 2 17:29:30 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux,
Dell Insp 4k).

Justin

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:25:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
> to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
> rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
> noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
> under 2.4.X kernel.
> 
> [Ugh, I was running with kgdb, but I recall same problem before, too.]
> 
> Does anyone have similar problem?
> 								Pavel
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Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:25:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 

Hi Pavel!

> I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
> to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
> rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
> noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
> under 2.4.X kernel.

Are you using debian(IIRC, you are, but maybe not on this machine?)?

Are you using the old version in debian stable?  Id suggest upgrading to the
new version available in testing, or possibly unstable (probably only
problems compiling on non-i386 arches).

The debian package maintainer doesn't like the version in stable at all, but
policy dictates that only security fixes and such go in the stable series...

  Version Table:
      1:0.72-1 0
           711 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
      1:0.64-3 0
           722 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
      1:0.58-2.3 0
           722 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages

Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
> > to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
> > rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
> > noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
> > under 2.4.X kernel.
> 
> Are you using debian(IIRC, you are, but maybe not on this machine?)?
> 
> Are you using the old version in debian stable?  Id suggest upgrading to the
> new version available in testing, or possibly unstable (probably only
> problems compiling on non-i386 arches).

Yep, this is debian testing machiene, and it looks up-to-date (with
respect to testing):

root@amd:~# apt-get install gaim
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, gaim is already the newest version.

Anyway... I was running as normal user. I should not be able to crash
machine no matter what software I run. (And vesafb pretty much points
to kernel fault).

									Pavel
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Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz) wrote:

Hi Pavel,
  I'm running 2.6.0 with gaim on Debian/unstable and it is fine.
Gaim is (debian) version 1:0.72-1, running on a dual Athlon MP.

I have reported one oops recently (search back in lkml for it)
but it doesn't seem repeatable.

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Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Peter Zijlstra]

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Hi,

every since I started using 2.6; currently running 2.6.1-rc1 gaim fails
to start, all it does it dump core. I haven't spend time on looking
where though.

Peter Zijlstra

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 18:25, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
> to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
> rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
> noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
> under 2.4.X kernel.
> 
> [Ugh, I was running with kgdb, but I recall same problem before, too.]
> 
> Does anyone have similar problem?
> 								Pavel

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Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[David Ford]

# uname -r
2.6.1-rc1

# ps aux|grep gaim
david    12511  0.1  2.7 28392 14124 ?       S    Jan03   1:14 gaim

# gaim --version
Gaim 0.74

Not saying gaim is perfect... but it's at least running here.  
Notwithstanding the frequent quirks of preferences randomly changing on 
you..

-d

Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>Hi,
>
>every since I started using 2.6; currently running 2.6.1-rc1 gaim fails
>to start, all it does it dump core. I haven't spend time on looking
>where though.
>
>Peter Zijlstra
>
>On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 18:25, Pavel Machek wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
>>to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
>>rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
>>noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
>>under 2.4.X kernel.
>>
>>[Ugh, I was running with kgdb, but I recall same problem before, too.]
>>
>>Does anyone have similar problem?
>>								Pave
>>
>l
>  
>

Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Benjamin Henne]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
> to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
> rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
> noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
> under 2.4.X kernel.
> 
> [Ugh, I was running with kgdb, but I recall same problem before, too.]
> 
> Does anyone have similar problem?
> 								Pavel


It's not a so similiar problem or is it.
I also have problems with gnome and freezing when using 2.6.0.
With my old 2.4.20 kernel all is ok. My problems starts with 2.6.0 
installation, which I needed for some hardware support. The new kernel 
works well in console. Have no errors in `dmesg`, not even in syslog.
If I setup a nework device and then also define a default route to my 
gateway gnome seems to freeze with it's first network access.
If I start net and then gnome, gnome needs to start over 20-30minutes 
and still did not come up totally. If I setup network in a xterm in 
gnome then gnome freezes after a short while, e.g. when starting mozilla.
It is no hard freeze, it looks like gnome is running on a 1 Mhz PC or as 
if it has time lack of several minutes.
But it's only in grapical gnome. In a console I can surf with lynx.
First I thougth it could be a gnome problem, but problems only come when 
booting with 2.6.0

Benjamin

Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >I'm having bad problems with gaim... When I run gaim, my machine tends
> >to freeze hard (no blinking leds). I'm running vesafb -> that should
> >rule out X problems. Machine is rather strange pre-production athlon64
> >noteook, but I'm running 32-bit (on 32-bit kernel), and I can run gaim
> >under 2.4.X kernel.
> >
> >[Ugh, I was running with kgdb, but I recall same problem before, too.]
> >
> >Does anyone have similar problem?
> 
> 
> It's not a so similiar problem or is it.
> I also have problems with gnome and freezing when using 2.6.0.
> With my old 2.4.20 kernel all is ok. My problems starts with 2.6.0 
> installation, which I needed for some hardware support. The new kernel 
> works well in console. Have no errors in `dmesg`, not even in syslog.
> If I setup a nework device and then also define a default route to my 
> gateway gnome seems to freeze with it's first network access.
> If I start net and then gnome, gnome needs to start over 20-30minutes 
> and still did not come up totally. If I setup network in a xterm in 
> gnome then gnome freezes after a short while, e.g. when starting mozilla.
> It is no hard freeze, it looks like gnome is running on a 1 Mhz PC or as 
> if it has time lack of several minutes.
> But it's only in grapical gnome. In a console I can surf with lynx.
> First I thougth it could be a gnome problem, but problems only come when 
> booting with 2.6.0

Seems like different issue, my machine is frozen, it does not ping
etc.
								Pavel
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Re: gaim problems in 2.6.0

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi, Benjamin Henne wrote:

> I also have problems with gnome and freezing when using 2.6.0.

Do you have CONFIG_PREEMPT turned on? I've noticed that it seems to
kill the stability of my PPC box when running X. Maybe there's a common
bug lurking somewhere.

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