Gnome 2.6 is B U G G Y !!!!

Hubbo · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 15 Location: .se

So Gnome 2.6 was realeased. I have been using it since it got into portage (a week or so).
Man, the 2.6 has got a SHITLOAD of bugs. Even worse than Windows 98. To many to post here.

But anyways. I was transferring some pictures from my Minolta A1, unmounted the camera. looked at them in EOG and then my desktop went bye bye. I mean wtf! No desktop nothing. And the panel has bugged out and restarted like 15 times.

Anyone with similar experiences with 2.6?

EdSchouten · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 79

Nope, I guess you tampered too much

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hjlane3 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject:

No Problems here...
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gnobus · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Seoul, Korea

Via usb? If so, I have no problem. Writing 700M movie in 1 G usb memory works good here.
I like gnome2.6 very much except some trivial bugs.

gtaluvit · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject:

Same here. Gnome mounts my camera just fine. Copied all of the stuff off into an incoming directory, opened in EOG, no issues.

The ONLY bug i've had so far is I managed to crash gnome-panel while changing themes while the files themselves were being changed (smart, I know). Other than that, very smooth.
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petrjanda · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

I like Gnome 2.6, but I agree there is more bugs and things such as recognizing some .txt files as shell executables than I appreciate. I was hoping for it to be fixed in the final 2.6 but it isnt. Now I will be using it, but when I get my new computer (athlon64 arch), which will be in a few months, i will be looking for something else, gtk based. Maybe XFCE which im testing recently or fluxbox which is really nice too & slim.

Vann · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357

First off, .0 releases are allowed to have a fair number of bugs. I imagine 2.6.1 will be released soon.

Anyhow, I had many of the same problems as everyone else until I deleted my 2.4 configuration files and started afresh. Since then I've not had one surreptitious crash or weird occurance of any other kind.

Xylene · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

I can't even get it to compile.. I keep getting errors and it craps itself. I'm about to just try KDE on this box.

bergs · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it's a bit buggy. Things I discovered in short time:

- gtk-engines have to be recompiled or things will break ... (gentoo related - if you are lucky, you see the message after you compiled gtk2.4 :roll:

)

- found two bugs in mahjongg (well, not really important but annoying)
- moves left is always zero after shuffle (only within the dialog box)
- you are user "unknown" in the player stats ...

- Gnome Terminal eats 100 % CPU on my x86 box! The ppc install I have is fine

I hate this bug ...

I hope most of the things get fixed in 2.6.1.

Simon

darksaidin · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 150

Maybe this is not your problem, but in general I'd suggest not to use overly aggressive cflags. Usually applications are written with specific flags in mind. I guess a -O or -O2 won't hurt (especially since it comes with a huge performance gain), but all those specific -f* parameters are really not designed to be set by a user without insight into the code and their impact on execution speed is so little that messing around with it really doesn't cut it, even if only one app becomes unstable, it's one too much imho.

Anyway, gnome runs perfectly fine on both of my gentoo systems.

ChiaJesus · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 51

I was very disappointed with Gnome 2.6. I didn't really run into any bugs, but just a whole lot of annoyances. Like:

- Not being able to change the size of the font used in the application menu
- No quick way to show/not show hidden files in Nautilus
- Actually, Nautilus itself is pretty much a joke

It just doesn't feel cohesive.

-Chia

curtis119 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:56 pm Post subject:

This is the 3rd or 4th thread on this subject but I'll post here to.

The only major bug I have run into (I installed 2.6 on a brand new box) is that the panel doesn't get killed when I log off and the next logon says there was an error starting gnome-panel because there is already an instance running.

Other than that it seems to run pretty good. I actually like the new nautilus. It is so much like the MacOS9 finder that I used to love.
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Spawn of Lovechild · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

I've been with the entire development series on several platforms including Gentoo GNU/Linux, and GNOME 2.5.x and 2.6 have provided me not major grief.

report your bugs to the GNOME bugzilla, if they are indeed not just stupid over optimization bugs.
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VanDan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 586 Location: Australia

Gnome 2.4 used to be rock solid for me.
Gnome 2.6 is no different, apart from being faster.

I certainly haven't come across a 'SHITLOAD' of bugs, as you so eloquently put it.

What you have is hardware problems. May I suggest an upgrade is in order? You should upgrade to at least a 300Mhz processor with 96MB of RAM. However, if you can convince mommy and daddy to extend your loan, a 1Ghz Athlon will serve you well. Throw out that EDO RAM and buy a 256MB chip ( make sure to ask for single data rate; the 1Ghz Athlon motherboards don't take DDR RAM ( which is all the latest craze, but you'll find out about that in a couple of years ).

After purchasing or otherwise acquiring decent hardware, I'm sure your 'SHITLOAD' of bugs will be reduced to a trickle of issues that will be traced to user error.

curtis119 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

I totally agree with Spawn of Lovechild about the optimizations. If your cflags are crazy optimized then you are bound to run into problems.

Personally I use only -pipe and -Os in my cflags. USE flags take care of the mmx and sse cflags when they are used by a package. I've found this takes care of a lot of bugs in SO many packages.

When a packages docs say the package will benefit from such and such a cflag I just use

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darksaidin · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 150

The only real bugs I found were

- cannot open hidden files from the new gtk fileselector. (no, ALT+L doesn't work, you can select a file, but it won't be opened).

- nautilus spacial cannot be turned of from the options, needs to be set with gconf

- desktop wallpapers sometimes do not display in the wallpaper preview. Might be filesize related.

Hackeron · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 307

= Nautilus crashed 9 times for me in the 2 hours of testing. = Its still a lot less responsive than KDE,
= I cannot find any gstreamer enabled programs
= metacity wm doesn't comply with certain 'standards' I've grown fond of (seen in every single WM, or DE I tried except for in gnome, like alt+rmb+drag)
= metacity still doesn't have window tabbing
= the print deamon is really poor to say the least
= gnome-terminal is unstable, transparency settings freeze PC to death (1ghz, 512Mb ram),
= gnome-terminal doesn't support irssi properly, everytime someone sends a message it just goes black and I need to go to new channel + back to see message
= The EOG picture viewer is still worthless, can't gnome make something like kuickshow?
= The PDF viewer is slow and doesn't support contineous page-by-page browsing.
= The control center still lacks many features requiring usage of gconf-editor frequently

Its early in the morning, so I can't think of any more reasons why I cant stand/use gnome

, anyway, its extremely disappointing, after reading reviews I was really hoping it would finally replace KDE for me as I prefer gtk overall. But I guess I'll stick with KDE+Ion.

darksaidin · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 150

joem

Hackeron · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 307

Both Totem and Rhythmbox fail to compile against the new gstreamer, only compile with the old gstreamer. As for other feature complaints, just listing why I find gnome not usable for *me*.

As for nautilus instability and gnome-terminal, I have 7 friends who tried it on 3 different distros to exprerience exactly the same bugs. Gnome-terminel 2.4 was more or less ok though.

And by continious pdf viewing, I mean exactly that, emerge acroread and enable continious viewing and see for yourself.

PS, I also really dislike gthumb, I guess its a matter of preferance though, and kuickshow doesn't work in gnome.