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FS#23734 - [gnome-shell] crashing with latest nvidia 270.30

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 23:00 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 05:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

gnome-shell is crashing half the time I hit the top left corner of gnome 3 desktop and kick in gnome shell.

that's waht I got in /var/loG/messages.log
Apr 8 18:50:13 soho kernel: gnome-shell[14224]: segfault at 938 ip b5189518 sp bf962a50 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b4302000+16b3000]
8 19:02:34 soho kernel: gnome-shell[17340]: segfault at 938 ip b52aa518 sp bfcef0a0 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b4423000+16b3000]
Apr 8 19:04:08 soho kernel: gnome-shell[17790]: segfault at 938 ip b52ae518 sp bfeebac0 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b4427000+16b3000]
Apr 8 19:06:22 soho kernel: gnome-shell[17867]: segfault at 938 ip b51fc518 sp bf839ea0 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b4375000+16b3000]
Apr 8 19:13:29 soho kernel: gnome-shell[17999]: segfault at 3c59 ip b51d8760 sp bfec152c error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b4372000+16b3000]
Apr 8 19:14:28 soho kernel: gnome-shell[18350]: segfault at 3251 ip b51c1760 sp bf8b654c error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b435b000+16b3000]
Apr 8 19:20:17 soho kernel: gnome-shell[18781]: segfault at 938 ip b51b5518 sp bfbc29d0 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b432e000+16b3000]
Apr 8 19:22:32 soho kernel: gnome-shell[19280]: segfault at bf000960 ip b532d755 sp bf8288ac error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.270.30[b44c7000+16b3000]

I am using geforce 8300 GS on inspiron 531

I have switched to [testing] and using kernel 2.6.38.2-1

That bug report is useless because that's an upstream bug.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 05:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 23:15 GMT
we have nvidia 270.41.03 for more than 24 hours already in repos.

i suggest to update
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 00:37 GMT
yeah sorry.
it works better now with 270.41.03.
I did not though of retrying since I switched to fallback mode in the mean time

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