Precise faults

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 July 2012 05:22:09 Roger did opine:

> How about it, is anyone else being nibbled by this same duck? Cheers,
> Gene
> 
> Hi Gene
> Thanks
> I use Thunderbird with no problems, it's been a stalwart, not perfect
> but ok for my stuff. I wondered if Unity was an issue but as you use KDE
> with similar results, I'm guessing it's not Unity.
> 
> Phil
> Strange thing just now, I googled Proposed,  following instructions I
> went to Software Centre, tried to enter 'Software', it stalled on 'Soft'
> for 30 seconds, then htop showed that compiz stalled, failed with error
> message and everything shut down for 30 seconds then it all came back.
> Thinking about it,  compiz has failed half a dozen times over the past
> weeks, I didn't think much about it till now.
> Maybe kernel update will fix it.
> 
> Thanks
> Roger

I wasn't aware compiz was part of the kernel?  And it is not running at all 
here on this 10-04.4 rtai system.  So that is not a common point between 
us.  I do note that irqbalance is running here though.

Cheers, Gene
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