Re: Crash on Startup

On 07/14/2010 02:56 PM, Carlo Graziani wrote:
> On 07/14/2010 12:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Was using Nedit 5.5 on fresh FC13 install.  Nedit  was working fine as usual, until a couple weeks ago.  After some FC13 updates (not sure which one(s) was/were the culprit), nedit now locks up the PC when nedit is launched. Doesn't matter whether it starts from command line or from a file association in nautilus. The window starts to draw (just the window outline, background and menu bar, no menu bar text, no window title, no window resize/close buttons, no text at all).   Believe it is crashing X, not the entire PC,  as I have seen disk activity after the lockup, but cannot bail from/restart X without rebooting. I have to reboot the PC via reset button or power cycle.   
>>
>> Tried uninstall/reinstall via yum to no avail.   Also was not able to compile from source, but I gave up after a just couple of attempts to resolve missing files.  A search of the archives hasn't turned up a fix.  Have used Nedit for over a decade and hate to switch.  Any clues?   Am running an AMD dual core x64 processor and gnome.  The FC13 install package as reported by yum info is:
>>
>> Name       : nedit
>> Arch       : x86_64
>> Version    : 5.5
>> Release    : 22.fc12
>> Size       : 489 k
>> Repo       : fedora
>>
>> Seems odd the release is fc12 and not fc13....
>>
>> Any info is appreciated. TIA
>> -Paul
> 
> One possibility is that the update brought in a new X driver for your
> video hardware, and it's either buggy or the xorg.conf file is misconfigured.
> Depending on your video hardware vendor (Nvidia, ATI, Intel...) you may
> be able to swap out Fedora's distributed driver for a (probably binary) vendor-
> supplied one, at least for testing purposes.  If the lockups go away
> you at least know that the X driver system was partly to blame.  If they
> don't, you can start focusing on libraries, or stracing nedit, etc.
> 
> If it is the video driver/hardware, it is unlikely that only Nedit breaks
> it.  I've seen recent cases of Flash and Javascript apps in Firefox lock
> up video hardware -- just scrolling up and down on a Facebook page could
> do it.  Have you tried other video-intensive tasks, like streaming from
> a webcam, or watching a movie?
> 
> Carlo
> 

Incidentally, if you post here the contents of /var/log/yum.log (just
the lines starting at the update), we could pore over the updated
packages and see if we can blame one of them.

Carlo

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