On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur randomly, or can > > > you reproduce them? Same with PulseAudio. > > > > > Yeah gnome shell. There are no traces about segfaults in dmesg for gnome shell crashes. It happens whenever I open more than 3 windows in one single virtual desktop (activity). > > About pulseaudio, it works, but I always see segfault message from the equalizer module in dmesg. > > > > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging > > > > > > Have you tried don what this page instructs? > > > > > Will try that if it crashes after the current rebuild (dual core 2 ghz, takes lot of time). > > > > I've been using GNOME 3 since May last year. No major problems so far. > > > > > > > 90% of NREs (Non Reproducible Errors) are caused by hardware problems. > > > > MemTest, albeit a good and thorough diagnostic utility, only checks for memory problem. > > > > It is likely that some other component on the OP's mainboard is failing; a component that lies outside the datapath exercised directly or indirectly by MemTest. > > > > Rgds, > > What component could it be? Or is there some way to dig in?
Could be anything, actually. Perhaps the Southbridge (or whatever its nom de jour is) which IIRC handles the sound system. (Because Pulseaudio is also having trouble). Rgds,
