On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Leonard den Ottolander leonard@den.ottolander.nl wrote:
Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is possible to give a heads up about such breakage via the CentOS general or announce mailing list before such a broken package is released into the wild? That would actually make it an advantage to swim down stream :-) .
Hi Leonard,
When the issue came up for me, I went to CentOS.org with the intent of posting a question about the bug, but found the announcement right at the top. I didn't think to echo it on the mailing list because I always assumed that those on the mailing list were more informed than those who use the forum. You make a good point. But these upstream bugs are pretty rare -- the most common problems I've found with CentOS are issues with the add-on repositories for non-core applications -- and that's usually a matter of updates in the pipes.
BTW, has anyone been able to figure out a pattern with this particular bug? My two computers with nVidia video chips have the problem, my laptop and my brother's computer (both running on Intel video chips) don't have the problem. I'm curious if all those who have this issue are using nVidia cards.
Thanks.