On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:12:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I was using gcc 4.3 but switched back to gcc 4.1. I'm not a developer >>>> and I don't feel right about filing a bug since I can't really tell them >>>> what is broke but something is wrong somewhere. I have not syncd my >>>> tree and it was a reinstall of the same version of packages. No config >>>> files were updated or listed that needs to be updated either. >>>> Basically, the only difference is the compiler. >>>> >>>> >>> File a bug. It's like going to the doctor, you don't have to know what's >>> wrong, just be able to describe the symptoms. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> I'm not sure what to even put. I do believe that gcc is causing >> problems as far as the code it produces but I have no idea what could >> cause it. >> >> I also have not changed my make.conf file. I only change it when they >> add some new device or something like that. I think the last change I >> made was to add kdeprefix. I can't see how it could be anything but gcc >> but have no clue how it could be either. Looks like I wouldn't be the >> only person to have this issue. >> >> I did notice that I can now compile a kernel. I have not had any errors >> doing that with the old gcc. Maybe, just maybe I can upgrade to 2.6.29 now. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> > > I am now pretty sure this is a gcc issue. My emerge -ev world is almost > done and while I slept my sound started working again. As far as I can > tell, everything is working again. I think I'm going to wait a while > before trying to upgrade gcc again. I still can't really say why gcc is > messing up but on this system, it is. > > By the way, Seamonkey doesn't crash on websites or when I open emails > anymore. Back to full time surfing. > > Thanks much. > > Dale
Very interesting. On my end I'm still having the mythtv xv-video crashes. I did an emerge -e world with the new compiler - 4.3.2-r3. That finished up but my problems didn't go away so I guess the next step is to go back again to 4.1. Bummer. That's a lot of time wasted. - Mark
