mail-notification crash since glibc 2.6

THuLiuM · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 19

Hi,

Since glibc 2.6 upgrade mail-notification keeps crashing after few minutes.
Here is the debug informations and emerge --info:

debug:

Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:23 am Post subject:

1. Disable ccache
2. Try to execute emerge -e world
3. You should disable kernel preemption

THuLiuM · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 19

preemption removed but I don't see the point of others advises. ccache is a compiler booster and emerge whole system again for 1 buggy package ? I might have others packages crashes if problem was system or librairies to be rebuilt, don't you think ?

Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

Glibc is a base package of the core system.

Ccache should be disabled during upgrade of core system packages: GCC, Glibc,...

movrev · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

Ok, it sucks that we have to rebuild everything and I understand that we might want to disable ccache for upgrading the core system (although, wouldn't that slow down the whole upgrade process in general?).

Now, what has kernel preemption to do with mail-notification and the such (gnome-power-manager as well) crashing? By the way, both programs seem to crash when they are about to display notifications (either on new mail or when the UPS starts working on battery power).

I think I added the preemptible kernel feature for skype, but I forgot now.

Thanks.
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Dagger · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 765 Location: UK

I had similar problem some time ago with evolution and email notification. In my case new evo solved it, as it contains it's own mail notification. It also solved all other 2.10 evo problems.

Don't know if that helps, since I'm not sure which email client you're using.
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movrev · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject:

Nope, lamentably it doesn't as I use mail notification for checking my gmail account. In any case, gnome-power-manager crashes as well and I need to solve that issue as well. Thanks anyway.
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paluszak · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:54 am Post subject:

THuLiuM · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 19

oki i found time to compile system and world. So i've a fresh gentoo and mail-notification works again. So everyone who has the problem has to emerge -e system / world due to new glibc

Btw i noticed a boost of my gentoo , kinda faster

paluszak · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject:

movrev · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:51 am Post subject:

I keep having this problem so I set to rebuild everything. So far, I've rebuilt all of my system save for gcc-4.1.2 which segfaults and generally freezes my keyboard. I think it meses up with the kernel as I sometimes get processor segfaulting afterwards and have to manually reboot as it freezes halfway through the reboot process.

I'll keep trying (perhaps unmasking gcc-4.2.2) and I'll keep you guys posted. If anyone has any idea, please drop me a line.
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movrev · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:54 am Post subject:

p.s. I've disabled ccache but haven't disabled kernel preemption because I want it for skype. This might be the issue as skype exited while compilation was ongoing. As long as I need to disable it just for the compile, I'll do it, although maybe exiting skype or even X would work, right? If anyone has more insight in this matter I'll appreciate it.
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movrev · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:40 am Post subject:

I've finally decided to disable kernel preemption to test upgrading gcc without it and solved part of my issues. I still get a compilation error, this time related to profiledbootstrap, but it doesn't segfault and freeze my keyboard anymore (I've tried it from a vt while not running X). Since I couldn't remerge gcc, I won't remerge world for now and so mail-notification keeps crashing.

If you want some more details on this gcc compilation error check out this thread which hasn't yet solved the issue.
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THuLiuM · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 19

I did this emerge with ccache enabled because it's not the 1st time I emerge gentoo with it and each time it worked.

So basically glibc, gcc, ccache have to be emerge a 1st time then you can emerge system and world using the script to not compile twice the same package. On my P4 2.4HT it took 2 days to compile the whole box in a X session, browsing web and playing videos

movrev · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

Yeah, I've been using ccache for a while now...this box has been running with it for more than 2 years, so I guess I'll add it again.

Also, disabling kernel preemption doesn't really solve any issues. I've tried recompiling gcc with downgraded or upgraded linux-headers (because of this post) and no matter what, gcc fails. It either tells me the profiledbootstrap error, or before even letting me know that, the kernel/processor issues a general protection fault somewhere during the compile and then everything goes to hell, leaving the system frozen after a while (mainly the keyboard I think) with a need to reboot.

So, I'm adding ccache and preemption back and will continue trying to fix this issue.
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movrev · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:50 am Post subject:

I finally managed to compile gcc by removing the -O2 compilation flag (proposed in this post) from make.conf. Enabling it again makes gcc compilation fail. Now that I'm through with that, though, I'll recompile world with the -O2 flag and gcc without it. I hope they fix this soon, as there have been a lot of people having this same problem for months.

When my world finishes compiling, I'll post if I keep on having the mail-notification, etc, issue.
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morda · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

Hi,

try rebuilding dev-util/gob

paluszak · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

I've been following this issue for a while now, since I've been having it too. So far, I've rebuilt system with ccache disabled and rebuilt gob and gmime, but the applet is still crashing on me. suppose I could rebuild world, but now is just a bad time for me to do that.

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north

same issue here. I just did an emerge -uDv system, glibc was updated and my mail-notification icon is crashing.

another thing that was broken was the passwd command, but reemerging cracklib fixed that.

I tried reemerging gob gmime anad m-n and it still crashes.

any news would be appreciataed

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

I'm almost in the final third of my emerge -e world, after doing emerge -e system. emerge -e system didn't fix anything (although it did come up with ~9 new config files....), but I'll let you know if -e world fixes anything after more than a day of compiling (800+ packages)

paluszak · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:09 am Post subject:

I re-emerge gcc and glibc with ccache turned off, then cleaned ccache's cache, then re-emerge all packages owning libs which mail-notification is linked against (I checked it with ldd /usr/bin/mail-notification), all to no avail.

I'm baffled.

J.

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

Well, after several days of recompiling my nearly 900 packages, it appears that emerge -e world did the trick. I don't know which package(s) in particular fixed the applet, but I'm not going to bother tracking that down. Some possibilities that come to mind are anything related to evolution, gnome-panel, or gnome-applets, but like I said, I'm putting that behind me.

It looks like I'm going to have to keep ccache off from now on, though, as I don't want to have to put up with this again should a major package break.

movrev · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:19 am Post subject:

I've come through as well by re-emerging system/world. I still don't know what fixed it, but man, it's fixed. Mail-notification stopped crashing although gnome-power-manager is still giving some minor issues. The only way to re-emerge gcc, though, was without the -O2 flag. I had both ccache enabled during all the upgrade and kernel preemption is enabled. So, those are my 2 cents...if someone figures out how to rebuild gcc without having to disable optimization plz let me know. I'm even willing to upgrade gcc eventually, but I trully don't want to remerge everything again at this moment.
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juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north

well, not in the mood to rebuild world, and I understand if the people who have solved this problem don't want to track exactly which packages need to be built. annoying, if anyone has any news, please share. I am going to rebuild evolution, gnome-panel, gnome-applets.