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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:34:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults
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On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:36 -0700
Ryan Roth <ryanroth@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Since this last boot I have only got these:
> 
> > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3112]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > sp 7fff4712c870 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3116]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > sp 7fff2959cce0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3119]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > sp 7fffc7671db0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]

OK.

Well I don't know what the heck to do about that.  It could be that we've
gone and changed the contents of (say) an acpi /proc file, and this happens
to cause your particular version of gnome-power-manager to take a different
(and buggy) codepath, so it crashes.  Or something like this.

I hate to do this to you, but our best hope for getting to the bottom of
this is for you to run a git bisection search to find out what we did which
triggered this.  http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some
instructions.

Or you could go the other route and work out where and why
gnome-power-manager is crashing.

You could try upgrading (or downgrading) your gnome-power-manager version,
see if that affects things.

Does the problem affect only gnome-power-manager?