Re: Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" installation feedback on zx6000

[Alan Devine <devine@dna.ie>]

Hi again,

Recompiled GDM yesterday with the flags you found removed and yes, as 
expected works perfectly! I then thought I Id tried OpenGL/Compiz and 
found the textures (even in GLGears) horribly corrupted. I checked for 
open bugs and found you already raised this, kudos to you! :)

Any insight on whats going on with this one? I followed the bug thread 
but wasnt clear to me.

thanks,


Alan



On 11/05/11 21:04, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, the GDM bug is still there. I regularly update the related bug
> report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537572).
>
> But now that I know the root cause, it's easy to work around: simply
> recompile the current gnome-settings-daemon package with -Wl,-z,defs
> removed from the LDFLAGS of the debian/rules build script.
>
> You'll get then a working gnome-settings-daemon package that you can
> overwrite the current one :-)
>
> Regards,
>
>       Émeric
>
>
> 2011/5/11 Alan Devine<devine@dna.ie>:
> > Just tried upgrading from Squeeze to Testing last night. The Weekly builds
> > still do not completely install from fresh for various reasons but the
> > "upgrade" from a running OS does.  Unfortunately the gdm/gdm3 bug is still
> > there!?
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > On 09/02/2011 15:33, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> > > Hello Alan,
> > >
> > > 2011/2/9 A. Devine<devine@dna.ie>:
> > > > On the GDM bug, when switching back to GDM from GDM3 can you actually use
> > > > the Settings-Daemon or does it still gobble 100% CPU on restart? Does
> > > > using
> > > > GDM break any other dependences?
> > > Switching back to gdm doesn't solve the problem, the GNOME settings
> > > daemon still uses 100% CPU. But at least a (standard) user can kill
> > > the gnome-settings-daemon processes without root priviledges required,
> > > releasing CPU power.
> > >
> > > I don't think that reverting to gdm break any dependency. In fact,
> > > from the release notes
> > >
> > > (http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/ia64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#id533495),
> > > gdm is the default option for people upgrading from Lenny. So I
> > > imagine that the Debian QA team has ensured that everything is fine if
> > > following this route. It's just advised to upgrade to gdm3, not
> > > required. Wheezy will be different, hence IMHO the need to fix ASAP
> > > Debian bug #537572
> > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537572).
> > > Furthermore, I've tracked down the issue to GNOME settings daemon
> > > 2.24.1-1 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537572#67).
> > >
> > > Next big thing will probably be to fix 3D hardware acceleration, as
> > > Wheezy will surely come with GNOME 3.x, using GNOME Shell as window
> > > manager. And GNOME Shell heavily relies upon Mutter/Clutter/OpenGL.
> > >
> > > > I found the same insta-crash bugs with Epiphany and to be honest, many
> > > > packages, Squeeze RC2 seems quite unstable on IA64.
> > > Too bad, since Squeeze is no more RC, but the stable one! Do you have
> > > a list of the faulty packages? Do you know if the issues you're
> > > experiencing have been filed through the Debian BTS?
> > >
> > >      Emeric
> >
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