I see miltiple lines similar to the following at about 1-2 minute intervals in my logs: Dec 19 11:15:55 newhome kernel: gam_server[3357]: segfault at 0000000000000038 rip 00000000004095bd rsp 00007fff81fdd3c0 error 4 This is a new system, just installed from a stage3 tarball. I have re-emerged gamin. # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-gentoo-r464b x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r464b x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_US en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr clearpasswd cli cracklib cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr foomaticdb fortran gdbm gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 iconv imap isdnlog jpeg libg++ mbox ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection samba session spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb wmf xorg zlib alsa_cards_intel8x0 elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_en_US linguas_en_GB userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_mach64" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Which gamin version?
app-admin/gamin-0.1.7
Reproducible with 0.1.8?
Yep. Just emerged 0.1.8 and the same is happening.
After re-building my kernel and re-booting, it now seems to be OK. The only changes I made to the kernel were related to ALSA, so I don't understand waht was going on. I also noticed before re-booting that gnome-panel was taking between 30-60% of my cpu time (Athlon64 3000+)
