ahh, gnome crashes after latest kernel upgrade

[Brian Pack]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:48 pm, Brian Pack wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:53 pm, Michael R Head wrote:
> > 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
>
> It's happened to me with 2.6.10-4-686. Total lockup in Gnome at login.
> Doesn't happen in KDE or Fluxbox until I attempt to run
> gnome-control-panel.
>
> From this thread,
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=16681&page=3&pp=10 I tried adding
> noinotify to the end of the kernel line
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst. No lockup this time. I'm running the new kernel
> now. :)

And as a followup, there was a new 2.6.10-4-686 kernel on the repositories 
this morning (2.6.10-24) that doesn't need the noinotify tag. No lockups for 
me with it.
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