GNOME desktop status on Debian IA-64

[Émeric Maschino-3]

Hi,

Are there people running Itanium workstations with the GNOME desktop environment out there?

I'm experiencing several problems with my daily-updated Debian Squeeze installation.

The most "serious" is Debian bug #537572 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537572) that I initially reported against GNOME 2.24. The switch to GNOME 2.26 didn't solve anything. GNOME 2.28 packages are progressively delivered to Debian Squeeze and I don't see improvements. I don't even know whether this problem is IA-64 specific, affects all 64-bit architectures or all architectures. Any hint?

I've also noticed that all the applications of the gnome-system-tools package are badly crashing. Try to configure e.g. the date and time with the appropriate tool in System/Administration (or invoking time-admin in a terminal) and you'll see what I mean. This problem was already there with gnome-system-tools 2.22. Current gnome-system-tools 2.28.1-1 still has this problem.

Altering the preferences of the Nautilus browser by clicking on the Edit/Preferences menu makes Nautilus crash. This is with current nautilus 2.26.3-1 package and may be related to bug #537572.

Am I the only one experiencing these issues?

Are you aware of other GNOME IA-64 specific problems?

Regards,

     Émeric

[Valery_Z]

Hello Emeric,

as a GNOME ia64 user for about 5 years, I recall the constant crashes  
of Nautilus, but the version was certainly lower than that you are  
talking about. It was on my zx2000 machine with sarge and symptoms  
included regular crashes each time I changed the default application to  
open a file and sometimes it happened after working with checkboxes  
that do the same job as chattr and similar commands. Now I'm running  
etch on this machine and it seems that the problem was fixed but not  
completely, because my Nautilus crashes about 2-3 times a week without  
any visible reason, which is more frequently than one may consider  
normal for x86 machines :)

Unfortunately, I'm far from being experienced in this topic and would
appreciate any help in getting itanium GUIs stable :)


Regards,

Valery




On 14/11/09 15:25:28, Émeric Maschino wrote:

> Altering the preferences of the Nautilus browser by clicking on the
> Edit/Preferences menu makes Nautilus crash. This is with current
> nautilus
> 2.26.3-1 package and may be related to bug #537572.
>
> Am I the only one experiencing these issues?
>
> Are you aware of other GNOME IA-64 specific problems?
>


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