Re: gnome-shell segfault

On 05/13/2013 03:03 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd bet on libffi as the culprit. You may try to use the version from
> the hardened overlay (there was one that should patch the issue a while
> ago). I was able to fix gnome on the only box I'm running gnome on right
> now (the issue was more or less the same).
>
> Note: I use 3.0.12-r1 (which is an old version because an update to the
> stable version broke it again and I haven't had time to upgrade and
> retry).
>
> WKR
> Hinnerk

Well, you got it!!!  I had seen other posts talking about rebuilding
libffi, which I had tried.  However I did not try changing versions of
the library.  I now have a working gnome-shell.  So now I can start
poking around and learning how the gnome desktop works and tweaking
settings to my liking.  I did have to downgrade libffi to 3.0.11 in
order to get things to work.  Do you know if there is a bug open on the
libffi->gnome-shell interaction?  If not, I'll open one as this is
something that needs to be looked at and fixed.  If there is one, I'll
add myself to the CC. 

Thanks for the pointer!

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