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Re: Gnome not working anymore?



On Wednesday 19 May 2010 15:43:01 Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Howdy y'all,
> 
> I really don't want this to be a useless mail like "x doesn't work. it
> worked. it works in $distro. make it work!!!!oneone", so
> I'll try to make it as usable as possible.
> 1. System is Testing/Unstable.
> 2. Did a dist-upgrade as I always do.
> 3. Pressed the akregator panel launcher only to find it won't work.
> 4. I say, maybe it's because of the update, I should relogin.
> 5. Gnome won't start no more, just shows me the background color and the
> cursor.
> 6. I say, it's a custom kernel, let's boot a Debian one (2.6.33-2-amd64).
> 7. Same symptoms; alt+ctrl+f2 and look in /var/log/messages.
> 8. sudo cat /var/log/messages | tail
> May 19 16:29:13 debian kernel: [   22.831221] powernow-k8:    5 : fid
> 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x11
> May 19 16:29:13 debian kernel: [   22.831222] powernow-k8:    6 : fid
> 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12
> May 19 16:29:13 debian lpd[1785]: restarted
> May 19 16:29:14 debian kernel: [   23.005030] Clocksource tsc unstable
> (delta = -71132891 ns)
> May 19 16:29:32 debian kernel: [   41.542406] metacity[2018]: segfault
> at d8 ip 00007fdfe1f72449 sp 00007fff17354330 error 4 in
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[7fdfe1f0f000+a8000]
> May 19 16:29:40 debian kernel: [   49.823486] gnome-panel[2036]:
> segfault at d8 ip 00007f1843707449 sp 00007fff36c5ee30 error 4 in
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[7f18436a4000+a8000]
> May 19 16:29:50 debian kernel: [   59.808918] nautilus[2137]: segfault
> at d8 ip 00007ff13b3f6449 sp 00007fffd570e8f0 error 4 in
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[7ff13b393000+a8000]
> May 19 16:30:00 debian kernel: [   69.732391] update-notifier[2141]:
> segfault at d8 ip 00007ff3d14ab449 sp 00007fff03fc8940 error 4 in
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[7ff3d1448000+a8000]
> May 19 16:30:00 debian kernel: [   69.759126] kerneloops-appl[2143]:
> segfault at d8 ip 00007fc017dd9449 sp 00007fffa2b61aa0 error 4 in
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[7fc017d76000+a8000]
> May 19 16:30:00 debian kernel: [   69.894630] polkit-gnome-au[2142]:
> segfault at d8 ip 00007f125ee50449 sp 00007fff2ed8b740 error 4 in
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[7f125eded000+a8000]
> 9. If I did something wrong, please tell me; if now, against what
> component should I report a bug? Libgtk ?
> 
> Thanks for your patience.
> 
> Regards,

Is your graphic card a nvidia? If so, blacklisting nouveau seams to do the 
trick.
Thierry
Thierry


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