I have a very up-to-date system (emerge -u world every other day, ~x86). After rebooting a new kernel, I started experiencing strange problems with a variety of applications. Rebooting using the previous couple of kernels I've used did not solve the issue. The symptoms: * If I press a key in a gecko-based browser, it crashes instantly. There is no indication whatsoever when looking at the strace of whatever applications, just 'segfault'. See bug url for an strace output using mozilla. (Note I can type fine into the url bar, it's only if I press a key whilst the webpage has focus that it crashes.) However, I can use the mouse to cut/copy/paste text without issue. * Sound-settings crashes on startup in Gnome * Several Gnome-games crash when trying to play them (they load but crash usually on first move) * Gnome-panel crashes when I use the logout through the Actions menu Currently trying an 'emerge -e gnome mozilla' to see if this fixes it. I've already tried re-emerging all the major packages (such as glibc) or any packages that I've recently updated that might have affected this. Sadly I had emerged everything with -fomit-frame-pointer set so Gnome bug-buddy was not offering helpful output, but I've unset this for the 'emerge -e gnome mozilla' so even if that doesn't resolve the issue I should be a bit closer to being able to identify the problem package. charlie@mightymax charlie $ emerge -p gnome mozilla These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.4.2_p1 [ebuild R ] net-www/mozilla-1.6-r1
Is this still a problem with current versions?
