good evening dear distributors, first of all: for the last months, bugzilla.gnome.org has suffered from many useless crasher reports, because traces missed the names of the calls, even if users have installed the required debug packages. this happened to many distros (the ones i definitely know of are at least opensuse, ubuntu, debian, and partially fedora). i can't see any reason why the other distros with a recent kernel are not also suffering from this. the underlying issue seems to be a kernel problem, as described here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258433 the patch that suse now uses is attached here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258433#c49 there are also downstream reports about this for ubuntu and redhat (i don't know about the bug tracking systems of the other distros): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/74691 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253908 so if you are interested in less workload for your triagers, developers that can find the reason for crashers in their apps, and more useful user feedback, i'd appreciate pushing a patch or (if any doubts) further investigation and follow-ups. *and now back to our regularly scheduled program:* distros that have a backport policy or are based on an older gnome release most likely want to make sure that they provide updated packages including these fixes: ======================================================================== EVOLUTION: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334966 has been fixed in 2.10.2 and 2.11.2, but still getting enough dup reports, distros: please update/backport if you haven't done yet. fix: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/branches/gnome-2-18/mail/mail-component.c?r1=33312&r2=33591 ======================================================================== E-D-S: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425129 166 dups so far. backporting appreciated. fix: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/libical/trunk/src/libical/icaltimezone.c?r1=600&r2=599 libical also includes other updated timezone information (e.g. for mongolia), so it could be useful to ship the current state of it. for your interest, evolution 2.12 will instead use the system timezone information on *nix systems. ======================================================================== GNOME-UTILS\logview: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364106 has been fixed for 2.18.1. still getting some duplicate reports, please backport if you haven't done yet. fix: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-utils/branches/gnome-2-18/logview/logrtns.c?r1=7457&r2=7490 ======================================================================== RHYTHMBOX: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434003 has been fixed in 0.10.1. according to comment 5 this was fixed on 2007-04-28 in trunk and stable. 519 dups total, 162 in the last 30 days. fix: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/rhythmbox?view=revision&revision=5080 ======================================================================== RHYTHMBOX: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436456 has been fixed for 0.10.1. 310 dups total, 89 in the last 30 days. the duplicates of this bug contain different crashes with python 2.4/2.5 mostly from Mandriva and FC6/7. the (hopefully) complete fix has been made available shortly after 0.10.0. pushing version 0.10.1 would be nice to get less crashers. ======================================================================== as already written, i ask vendors/distros (especially ubuntu and suse) to add a short comment to the bugzilla.gnome.org report when a patch has been backported (highly appreciated). andre -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed http://www.iomc.de/
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