On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 13:50 +0800, Paolo Scarabelli wrote: > Hi, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to ask. > > I have a weird problem with a Debian testing (Wheezy) install, > gnome-settings-daemon keeps crashing whenever I boot with kernel 2.6.38. > > With other kernel releases (2.6.32 and 2.6.39) I have no problem at all, > I initially filed a bug report (#619457) with the Debian Gnome > maintainers [1] but I now suspect it could be a bug in a kernel module > so I would like to reassign it to the Debian Kernel Team. [...]
It sounds like there are 2 bugs: 1. The kernel is reporting spurious changes in the connected displays (hence the flickering between 2x3 and 2x4 workspaces). 2. There is a race condition in handling these changes in gnome-settings-daemon which causes it to crash. Therefore, please clone your bug report and reassign the clone. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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