Re: glib 2.18 instability

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:24:59 +0900, Jared D. McNeill 
> <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Hey folks --
> >
> > Ever since updating to glib 2.18 on multiple machines, GTK/GNOME
> > applications have been flaky, to say the least. I've seen it on both
> > upgraded and fresh installations, both with native xorg and pkgsrc xorg.
> >
> > Is anybody else seeing these issues? Since pkgsrc is in freeze in
> > preparation for 2008Q3, maybe it makes sense to rollback to 2.16.x which
> > was working very well for us, and look at 2.18 again after the branch
> > when we can upgrade gtk and gnome to 2.24 all in one shot.
>
> I have no trouble with glib 2.18, but heard some issues.
> Then I asked a week ago if I should revert the update or not,
> but no response from pkgsrc-releng yet...

I have seen randomly issues (and I don't think I'm alone) with gedit, 
totem, gnome-terminal, and most recently gnome-panel itself crashed. It 
hasn't been consistent; gnome-terminal may fail on one faster machine 
(Pentium D 805) and startup on another (EeePC). I've seen totem crash when 
attempting to open a file, and then it worked the second try.

Cheers,
Jared