Various stuff

Long time no blog…

Been busy with life and work lately and haven’t been making too much noise in this sphere.

So, since we moved into our new house a couple of years ago we now have fruit trees in our garden. Three plum trees, two apple trees and one pear tree. Previous years weren’t so bad, but this year is crazy with regards to the amount of fruit that has grown on the trees. Several of them have broken from the weight of the fruit and my back is aching from removing the fallen fruit from the ground before the neighbourhood smells like a barrel of unfinished wine 🙂 Still it’s nice to be able to just pop out into the garden to pick fresh fruit.

Have barely been able to keep up with GNOME development, but I’ve managed to keep the Norwegian bokmÃ¥l translations fairly updated and have done the occacional jhbuild to see if things work as intended. Fedora rawhide has been mostly nice to me also, though I’ve been seeing one problem where the machine locks up randomly from time to time.

This has forced me to boot with maxcpus=1 which makes the machine stable across many suspend/resume cycles etc. This first happened to me when KMS was enabled in rawhide so it’s most likely a driver problem in the intel driver, but it seems nobody else is seeing the same thing apparently. At first it started out with Evolution or a terminal going crazy and ending up in uninterruptible sleep (D state) and shortly after that the machine tended to hang. These days I just get the hang with no warning so it’s difficult to gather more data.

Bug report is here if someone is seeing something similar
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492686

Also been trying out the llvm/clang statical analyzer and it seems it generates tons of false positives due to not understanding that g_return* and g_assert etc actually return? Is there a way to suppress these warnings maybe? Overall it looks very similar to the Coverity checker and covers mostly the same kind of errors from what I can see. Going to be interesting to follow this going forward.

If anyone wants some nice pop music for free some friends just released their new album and it’s available for download here: http://www.pogopops.com/download/action_free192.zip – enjoy 🙂

Releases and new blog

Just put out some releases for 2.20.1

libgnome/libgnomeui 2.20.1: Some nice fixes for the file chooser by Federico and friends

libbonobo 2.20.1: Matthias plugged a couple leaks

gconf 2.20.1: Minor stuff

ORBit2 2.14.10 : Jules Colding did a whole lot of fixing in the GIOP code

I finally got off my ass and moved my old blogs from advogato and pyblosxom to blogs.gnome.org. Hopefully this will help improve the blog frequency too 🙂