[PlanetCCRMA] fc6/7: new rt kernel; fc6/7: updated libgig

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:26 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> Ok, so just to confirm, that 2.6.21-0182.rt19.1.fc7.ccrmart works fine
> on my desktop but on my laptop it makes Firefox and Tomboy to crash.
> On the same laptop using 2.6.21-0182.rt17.1.fc7.ccrmart there is no
> problem.

Maybe this is a processor related bug. What processors do you have in
both machines?

I did not manage to hang it with gmail but I have privoxy enabled, maybe
some flash add related stuff is being intercepted in my case and does
not execute. 

Turns out that since rt11 the rt patch includes a new scheduler (the
CFS, Completely Fair Scheduler, also by Ingo Molnar) and may be causing
this problem. I posted to lkml and asked Ingo if it is possible to split
out this added functionality... sigh...

-- Fernando


> On 7/7/07, Hector Centeno <hcengar at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Hi Fernando,
>         
>         I do have Flash installed but for me Firefox crashes when
>         trying to
>         access gmail (which AFAIK doesn't use Flash, does it?). Right
>         now
>         Firefox is frozen and I'm typing this email using Konkeror (in
>         Gnome). 
>         This is ps' output:
>         
>         hector    3595  1.1  2.2 194352 46336 ?        D    16:25
>         0:03
>         /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.4/firefox-bin
>         
>         I think the problem is not present in my Desktop but I have to
>         double 
>         check. In the same laptop using the stock fedora kernel both
>         Tomboy
>         and Firefox work fine. My laptop has a centrino duo processor,
>         2 gigs
>         of ram and the Inte GMA950 graphics chip.
>         
>         Hector
>         
>         
>         On 7/7/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano < nando at ccrma.stanford.edu>
>         wrote:
>         > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:41 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
>         wrote:
>         > > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 00:42 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote: 
>         > > > With the f7 stock kernel works fine. Also I've been
>         having lots of
>         > > > problems trying to connect to my wireless network using
>         the ipw3945
>         > > > modules from the ccrma repos. A third strange problem is
>         that Firefox 
>         > > > freezes with the rt kernel and it's impossible to kill
>         it.
>         > >
>         > > That is weird. What does "ps axuw" show for its state and
>         all that?
>         >
>         > Oh well, that was easy to reproduce. I'm getting a complete
>         hang of 
>         > firefox with both rt19 and rt20 but so far only when trying
>         to use a
>         > page that has flash content in it (I just installed flash 9
>         from the
>         > dries repo). Have you installed flash by any chance?
>         > 
>         > -- Fernando
>         >