[CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?
Alfred von Campe
alfred at von-campe.com
Thu Jun 5 18:21:31 UTC 2008
On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:23, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I am not having any issues with CentOS 5 and Gnome ... I have been
> using it as my primary desktop since before the 5.0Beta stage.
>
> I would initially start out but looking at any 3rd party installed
> products.
The only 3rd party tools that are *installed* on the systems are the
following RPMs from the RPMforge repo:
crossvc-1.5.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
directfb-0.9.25.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
directfb-devel-0.9.25.1-1.el5.rf.i386.kdiff3-0.9.92-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
meld-1.1.5-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.008-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
perl-Compress-Zlib-2.008-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-IO-Compress-Base-2.008-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.008-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-Jcode-2.06-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
perl-Mail-Sendmail-0.79-1.2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-OLE-Storage_Lite-0.16-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.32-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-2.21-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
perl-Unicode-Map-0.112-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
perl-XML-Parser-2.36-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
perl-XML-Simple-2.18-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
subversion-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
subversion-perl-1.4.6-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
None of these have actively running processes (ie.e, daemons) that
could interfere with ongoing Gnome activity. I do have a couple of
3rd party tools that are installed on an automounted NFS share, but
again, these are just user applications like an IDE and a source
control management system that should be fairly self contained and
not affect the Gnome Terminal process, Gnome applets, etc.
> Also, if the hardware is the same, it might be something related to
> that motherboard chipset and centos-5 kernels. I would see if you
> have the latest BIOS for the hardware as there may be APIC/ACPI
> issues that can effect kernel, udev, hald, etc.
OK, I will look into this.
> I have zero issues here ... but I do NOT use yum-updated or any of
> its applets.
The only Gnome applets in use are the default ones: Show Desktop,
Window List, and Workspace switcher. I don't even have the yum-
updatesd RPM installed.
I will try to raise these issues on a Gnome mailing list or forum to
see if anyone has any useful insights.
Thanks,
Alfred
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