On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone > unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start (I see a > segfault by the equalizer module). > > My graphic card is on board i945 and I have set mesa to classic mode on sw > and i915 families. > > I partially belive that this is because of -O3 in my make.conf, but > compiling a few packages using -O2 didn't do much good either. Moreover, > I've been using kde with -O3 since 2011 and never had such a problem. > > Nevertheless, I'm rebuilding everything with -O2 (emerge -e system, emerge > -e world) with gcc 4.7 (no lto) just to see if that fixes the trouble. > > I have memtested and there's absolutely no problem with the RAM. > > What do you guys suggest?
By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur randomly, or can you reproduce them? Same with PulseAudio. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging Have you tried don what this page instructs? I've been using GNOME 3 since May last year. No major problems so far. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
