ahh, gnome crashes after latest kernel upgrade

Michael R Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Wed Feb 23 23:53:54 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:45 -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:

> I dist-upgrade'ed, rebooted into the new 2.6.10-4-686-smp kernel and
> Gnome loads up... the splash screen goes away... the panels start to
> load, and then everything just hangs. Nothing shows up in the panels.
> Maybe an applet caused the crash??? maybe not. I rebooted twice and it
> happened both times. The third time i booted back into the
> 2.6.10-3-686-smp kernel and everything is working again.


It's gamin interacting badly with, I presume, inotify. I sat on the text
console during login and saw the kernel panics and failures in
gam_server. 

I'm booting with 2.6.10-3-k7 now.

mike


> 
> Has this happened to anyone else?
> 
> Matt
> 

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