Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStartingWith 2.6.24.5 Kernel

[Ryan Roth]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:36 -0700
> Ryan Roth <ryanroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Since this last boot I have only got these:
> >
> >     
> > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3112]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > > sp 7fff4712c870 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3116]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > > sp 7fff2959cce0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3119]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > > sp 7fffc7671db0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > >       
>
> OK.
>
> Well I don't know what the heck to do about that.  It could be that we've
> gone and changed the contents of (say) an acpi /proc file, and this happens
> to cause your particular version of gnome-power-manager to take a different
> (and buggy) codepath, so it crashes.  Or something like this.
>
> I hate to do this to you, but our best hope for getting to the bottom of
> this is for you to run a git bisection search to find out what we did which
> triggered this.  http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some
> instructions.
>
> Or you could go the other route and work out where and why
> gnome-power-manager is crashing.
>
> You could try upgrading (or downgrading) your gnome-power-manager version,
> see if that affects things.
>
> Does the problem affect only gnome-power-manager?
>
>   
gnome-power-manager
ift-callout
gdm-binary

seem to be the only ones effected
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