Bus error after upgrading

korz · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:07 am Post subject: Bus error after upgrading

Hi,
I have a problem with my ultra 60 workstation. After upgrading to gnome 2.20, some applications refused to work, e.g. gnome-appearance-properties and seamonkey. While seamonkey at least works for some time, before it dies, the gnome-appearance-properties window closes directly, after it had opened.
The error message is in both cases "Bus error".
In other postings, I read, that this behavior may or may not be the result of a hardware failure.

Other applications, like firefox, xorg and the major part of gnome run without problems.

Very strange.

Can someone give me an advice, what to do?

Thanks!

Ferris · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:

Bus errors are usually software problems, and they mean that some application is using unaligned addresses (sparc requires that the address of a data item must be aligned modulo its size, so, for example, 0x8 is a good address for a double precision item but 0xA is not). I don't know about your specific problem because I do not know gnome. I do know, however, if as part of your upgrade you happened to install =x11-libs/cairo-1.5.4, you will have just the sort of problem you are describing, and you should use x11-libs/cairo-1.4.12.

Hope this makes some sense, at least.
Regards,

korz · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:

Hi, thank you for your answer.
I had cairo 1.4.10 installed on my system. I upgraded to 1.4.12 without any improvement.
I created a completely new stage 3 installation on a different harddisk and emerged xorg-x11 and seamonkey. Again, without any improvement. Still the same error.
At least, Solaris seems to run fine.

Frank