[OE-core] experiences with images based on current layer heads

[Andreas Müller]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> If you are unable to look into this yourself, can you please file a bug on
> the bugzilla.yoctoproject.org website?  This issue is likely to get more
> attention if there is an active bug with reproducer steps.  (What you have
> below may be enough for someone who understands X and xfce to reproduce it,
> but I'm not sure.)
>
> (I've very lightly used X under oe-core master, but I've not done anything
> more then xterms myself.)
>
> It would of course be even better if you could figure out a proper test case
> to reproduce this, but that's not required...
>
> --Mark
>
>
> On 4/4/13 5:29 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Andreas Müller
>> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when migration of systemd to oe-core turned to unbuildable I decided
>>> to freeze my images and stopped further tests. Now that many issues
>>> were fixed and we are close to another release I built my standard
>>> xfce-based image based on latest layer HEADs. With this I face some
>>> issues which I would like to share:
>>>
>>> 1. X sessions crash with OOM. This is reproducible by opening
>>> google-maps with midori and changing to satellite view. In
>>> Xorg.0.log.old I see only
>>>
>>> | (EE)
>>> | (EE) Backtrace:
>>> | (EE)
>>> | (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x9
>>> | (EE) BUG: triggered 'if (inSignalContext)'
>>> | (EE) BUG: log.c:502 in LogVMessageVerb()
>>> | (EE) Warning: attempting to log data in a signal unsafe manner while
>>> in signal context.
>>> | Please update to check inSignalContext and/or use
>>> LogMessageVerbSigSafe() or ErrorFSigSafe().
>>> | The offending log format message is:
>>> |
>>> | Fatal server error:
>>> |
>>> | (EE)
>>> | (EE) Backtrace:
>>> | (EE)
>>>
>> seems we are not alone [1]
>>
>> [1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=38568&p=321298
>>
>> Andreas
I am not a friend of bugzillas because notification is missing as long
as I don't add a comment. Anyway I will add a description for xorg
problem.

Meanwhile I found another issue with libpng 1.6.0 - see
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4060

Andreas