Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:00:48PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 30.07.09 21:25, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:12:25PM +0200, nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net wrote:
> > > > but X / GNOME is still severely broken.
> > > 
> > > GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now
> > > 
> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01500.html
> > 
> > It was pulseaudio BTW.
> 
> Oh my. PA's not at fault here. PI mutexes are broken in the rawhide
> kernel/glibc. It's simply PA which triggers that.

I appreciate that you've done a lot of work on PA, so I don't want to
sound rude.  I think in these situations (where a syscall fails) it's
better to not play any sound instead of having applications become
unresponsive.

The worst problem is with metacity.  It somehow enquires with PA if it
should play a sound when switching workspaces.  Since this fails,
trying to switch workspaces triggers the entire GNOME environment to
hang.

Rich.

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