Upgraded to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3_rc2, realized my gaim wasn't working, recompiled it quite a lot of times trying to figure out what was wrong. it starts if I rm -rf ~/.gaim, but not if I cp my old accounts.xml working. strace shows: fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY) fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40ab4000 _llseek(4, 0, 0xbfff2b2c, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) read(4, vmware wasn't working in 2.6.3, so I rebooted back into 2.6.2 and to my suprise gaim worked fine there. Note that I recompiled gaim with -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer and it still didn't work on 2.6.3. And I'm using reiserfs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3_rc2 2. start gaim with accounts.xml in place. Actual Results: gaim fails to start. Expected Results: started Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.2-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.2-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387 -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387 -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.13/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.10/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib aavm alsa apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr composite crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mtrr ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
typo'd my notes, bug is in kernel gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3_rc1, rc2 is untested.
So if you remove your .gaim folder, can you start gaim and re-create your accounts from scratch and then have it usable again?
tried some more, if I rm -rf .gaim it works. if I start gaim with standard settings it works. if I cp my accounts.xml over it doesen't work. however the same accounts.xml works on older kernels. (yeah I know, this is an odd one ;) ).
So you can blow away your .gaim folder, start gaim, and manually re-add your accounts and use gaim just fine?
no, I dunno what screws up, the length of the file perhaps, but something makes gaim crash (and on that kernel only). I could try adding one account and see if that works. When I tested I readded all of em.
Well all of my boxes are development-sources-2.6.2 and gaim works fine for me. I'd like to find some more people with this problem.
gentoo dev johnm doesn't think it can be kernel related. He suggests you emerge and make use of memtest86 or memtest86+ to see if there is something up with your memory. He is using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3_rc2-r1.
gaim runs fine on 2.6.2, but not on 2.6.3-rc1 Don Seiler. and I dobut it's a memory problem, when I can reboot between 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 and "turn the problem on and off" like that very easily. That's what makes me think it's a kernel bug, especially when the strace shows a seek error. And this happens every time in 2.6.3 and never in 2.6.2. If you still want me to run a memtest I will, but I wont be able to do that until saturday probably.
Reiser3 or 4? 4 is still unstable for some people. It could be the kernel in the reiserfs code (most likely) or even the IDE code (less likely). You could also try the same vanilla 2.6 kernel. It might be a patch in gentoo-dev.
reiser3, and I thought it might be that, which is why I filed it in kernel bugs ;)
Running 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 now with no problems with gaim and also vmware w/update50.
This was an error on the filesystem inside a loopback device. Some fixes in reiserfs in 2.6.3 must have changed from ignoring the error to not reporting it and hanging on it or something.
