Bug 336354 – Gnome-2.30.2 extremely unstable after emerge-world (gnome-panel marginaly more stable after rebuild of everything depending on glib)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Andrew Bovill 2010-09-07 14:10:17 UTC]

after updating to gnome-2.30.2 via emerge -auvDN world, gnome would not start at all (due to bug #331037) I re-emerged everything depending on glib and that allowed gnome to at least start up.  Gnome is still very unstable and seemingly random acts can cause gnome-panel to crash, or various other gnome-based programs to crash.

I am currently running emerge -e gnome to see if that fixes it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -auvDN world (including update to gnome-2.30.2
2. restart
3. watch GNOME florpel.

Actual Results:  
gnome-panel may run, but resizing the screen (with nvidia-settings for instance) may cause it to crash.
the bottom gnome-panel (with the window list) may 'blank out' if you move your mouse over it, and then unblank when you move away, or vice versa.

Expected Results:  
Gnome should be stable.

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7500_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS=""
LINGUAS="en ja"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/swegener /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa avahi berkdb bluetooth bonjour bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dell dri dvd dvdr emacs encode faac faad ffmpeg flac fltk fontconfig fortran gdbm gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk hal hpijs iconv ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k laptop libnotify libssh2 mmx modules mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses network networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nss ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl php png policykit ppds pppd python readline reflection resolvconf samba session smartcard spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg sysfs tcl tcpd tiff truetype unicode utf8 wmf x264 x86 xcb xinerama xinetd xml xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hdsp hdspm" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ja" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Andrew Bovill 2010-09-07 14:10:58 UTC]

Created attachment 246360 [details]
xsession-errors

The cannot connect to X display errors were caused by nvidia-settings and aren't REALLY part of this bug.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2010-09-07 18:11:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I am currently running emerge -e gnome to see if that fixes it.
> 

Better wait for that then before reporting ;-)

> LDFLAGS=""

This is not normal, it should show default LDFLAGS, please verify your /etc/make.conf (but you will need to "emerge -e world" to get things built with proper LDFLAGS again)

[Comment 3 Andrew Bovill 2010-09-07 21:40:38 UTC]

Uh oh.
What are 'default' LDFLAGS? (and how the heck could I have screwed that up?)
Thanks!

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2010-09-07 21:59:18 UTC]

Defaults are:

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"

that are inherited from profile, in my case:

$ eselect profile list
Available profile symlink targets:
  [1]   default/linux/amd64/10.0
  [2]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop
  [3]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome *
  [4]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde
  [5]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/developer
  [6]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
  [7]   default/linux/amd64/10.0/server
  [8]   hardened/linux/amd64/10.0
  [9]   hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
  [10]  selinux/2007.0/amd64
  [11]  selinux/2007.0/amd64/hardened
  [12]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64
  [13]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/desktop
  [14]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/developer
  [15]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/hardened
  [16]  selinux/v2refpolicy/amd64/server

In my make.conf I simply have no line at all about LDFLAGS