Posted July 13, 2019
low rated
darktjm: Today, I got a kernel panic from the graphics driver running a gog installer under wine. Repeatedly, albeit inconsistently, so I guess I can't update/install Windows games for now. My system gets broken in some way on every other kernel revision, mesa update, and/or X driver update, so you'd think I'd be used to it by know. Something broke inside of me this time, though. Maybe part of it is because I have at least 5 other critical breakages going on already. Maybe it's my ongoing anger at not having hardware documentation for any of my hardware (which has mostly been true since pre-AGA Amiga, which had the schematics in the users' manual and a complete hardware reference manual separately). Mostly, though, I'm tired of not having anyone to turn to when things go wrong. I'm tired of spending most of my time maintaining my system, rather than using it. I don't know why I'm saying this here, but it's not like there's anywhere else I can complain and expect a helpful response, either. Maybe the various mailing lists, but I can't tolerate firehoses, especially given that with the death of network news, people have lost the art of writing informative subject lines and reply editing. My bug reports just get ignored or replied with "did you try our latest, which has no changes that directly address your issue?" and require way too much effort, since I usually offer some sort of patch while I'm at it, meaning I've already fixed it for myself, anyway. I have wasted my last 35 years dedicating myself to these infernal machines with nothing to show for it.
I think I'm going to just go and take a long nap. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow, at least until the next thing breaks. It's not like I have anything else I can do any more that isn't on my computer.
Edit: instead of taking a nap, I downgraded just my kernel (5.2.0->5.1.17) and the panic disappeared. I wouldn't have guessed based on my reading of the changes in the driver, but I guess some denominator is now being initialized to zero (it was an fpu fault). I probably won't investigate further or report it, because I'm tired of it.
Is it linux? If so then there's your problem(not linux but how tough it is to deal with such issues sometimes) I think I'm going to just go and take a long nap. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow, at least until the next thing breaks. It's not like I have anything else I can do any more that isn't on my computer.
Edit: instead of taking a nap, I downgraded just my kernel (5.2.0->5.1.17) and the panic disappeared. I wouldn't have guessed based on my reading of the changes in the driver, but I guess some denominator is now being initialized to zero (it was an fpu fault). I probably won't investigate further or report it, because I'm tired of it.
With windows(for me) it just works out of the box usually.