daid kahl schrieb: >> This reminds me of a problem we had just recently. >> Have you got a multi-core CPU ? >> If yes, read on. > > If you all think it might be multi-core related, check out a recent > post that was syndicated to planet.gentoo: > http://gentooexperimental.org/~patrick/weblog/archives/2009-11.html#e2009-11-19T00_43_58.txt > > This discusses how using a feature in the 2.6.32 kernel one can kill > various cores in a multi-core system. > > In any case, it's a way to experiment with this theory.
Thanks for the link. I rather suspect something else: Just now had a look at the gnome-shell as I read another thread from 2 days ago ... (Mike Higgins on this list ...) mentioning this new gnome-part. I disabled compiz and used gnome-shell. It started fine but I was not able to start thunderbird, it always crashed the session. Starting opera and/or firefox: OK Another thing I did today (before that gnome-shell-test): I remembered that I had added the gnome-overlay back then when I wanted gnome-2.28 but still wasn't using full ~amd64. So I wondered if I might have pulled some packages from there that caused my crashes. I removed the overlay and did a "emerge -avuDN world" , some pkgs were rebuilt, (yep, revdep-rebuild as well) after that I did a reboot but still the X-session crashed occasionally. Only with gnome-shell it seems to be thunderbird that does something special ... OK, I perfectly know that gnome-shell is beta ... just to add some info to this thread. I will now disable compiz and see what happens. Greets to you, Stefan
