Re: General unstability on wheezy (unstable repository)
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:59:03 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
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> Hi All,<BR>
> <BR>
> During the last few months I've been experiencing an increasing
> instability on my systems running wheezy. This used to be a good quality
> repository and good compromise between stability and new features for a
> desktop usage.<BR>
> <BR>
> However, with the gnome3 transition I started to experience more and
> more instabilities.<BR>
> The first issue was that on 1 of my 2 systems, gnome-shell starts
> loosing characters after a few minutes of working. This could results
> into unusable desktop (as you can see in screen shot of <A
> HREF="mailto:636874@bugs.debian.org";>bug#636874</A> in <A
> HREF="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?
bug=636874#60">message#60</A>)<BR>
> For me this problem should be tagged with severity grave as it renders
> package not usable, isn't it?<BR>
> <BR>
> Also, evolution starts crashing more and more and now I can not have it
> running a few hours without it dies. On one on my systems it even
> results on segmentation fault upon starting, unless I disable network or
> I run it inside gdb otherwise, no mail.<BR>
> <BR>
> A third issue is that I have an UML machine running sid for years. Now
> this UML machin is crashing regularly and when it crashe, al the X
> system dies. What is the relationship? I don't see, but the UML starts
> in a xterm and runs no X application, only used for compiling
> (Lazarus/fpc and other packages I maintain).<BR>
> <BR>
> I've started suspecting HW issue, but as some of these issues happens
> only on 1 systems and others on the second, I don't think it is related
> to HW.
> Also I can see that some of my issues are experienced by other
> users.<BR>
> <BR>
> Can anyone advise on how to proceed? Please keep me on copy of this mail
> as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.<BR>
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> Cheers,
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