> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of oleksandr korneta > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:00 PM > To: mai11ist@xxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: fc4 on x86_64, gtk2 weird behaviour > > so seems like no one knows what the problem might be... > not good > > > on 01/04/2006 11:15 PM oleksandr korneta wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I'm fighting with FC4 trying to make it work on x86_64 > (Turion) based > > laptop. Honestly saying there is a whole bunch of troubles > so far. But I > > hope (still) to handle those. > > > > Anyway here is the point. Something weird has happened to > all gtk2-based > > applications. Whenever you try to open Open/Save dialog > window the > > program just hangs and you have to kill it. If you run it > as regular > > user there is no output to console, however running > something (let's > > say > > gedit) from the root terminal seems to yield this: > > > > # gedit > > *** glibc detected *** gedit: malloc(): memory corruption: > > 0x00000000009a7c80 *** > > > > > > again application just hangs. > > > > I have to say that, firefox (1.5) behaves a bit > differently. It also > > gets stuck, but not always. Sometimes it works just fine > for some reason. > > > > The only thing I recall, one can blame on is that I've > updated gnome > > to > > 2.12 from http://www.nrpms.net repository. But I'm not sure > about that > > being a reason. > > > > any suggestions? > > I have seen the firefox crash, there is a bugzilla report for it. Compiling firefox-1.5 myself with -O1 seems to have made it stable and decently fast. With -O2 it crashes on a save on certain web pages, with -O0 is it stable but slow. The crashes are all deep in gtk2, and I had this crash on the default fc4 setup, and also with a number of gtk updates applied. I think it is a gtk2 bug, possibly an memory overrun, as the -O1 seems to prevent it from happening (less packing of memory?), all of my tests are only by recompiling firefox, not by messing with gtk2. Roger
