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Martux
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 Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:07 am Post subject: gkrellm segfaults after nvidia-drivers update |
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After emerging nvidia-drivers-295.20 yesterday and rebooting, gkrellm-2.3.5 suddenly stopped working.
I get this error on konsole (german) which means memory access error:
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gkrellm Speicherzugriffsverletzung: Festplatte (update_monitor)
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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same here; removing nvidia gpu temp monitor permits
gkrellm to run ...
I don't suppose anyone is still developing gkrellm, but I still
like it - nothing gets so much info into such a compact
presentation
so a fix would be nice ...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| If you enable the nvidia gpu temp monitor an run gkrellm via strace it runs fine. This definitely is a strange problem. |
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Martux
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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How do you enable/disable?
My error from above states something about the harddisk update_monitor...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Delete the nvidia line in .gkrellm2/sensor-config with a texteditor or start gkrellm with strace and disable it with the gui. |
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albright
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | How do you enable/disable?
My error from above states something about the harddisk update_monitor... |
I'm not sure what you mean - I just deleted ~/.gkrellm2/sensor-config
and then it worked (and crashed if I turned on the nvidia gpu temp
monitor)
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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I just noticed that the new nvidia driver also causes
vlc to segfault ...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Something I read regarding a different issue, might help here too: Delete ~/.nv |
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albright
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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does not work for me 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| media-video/vlc-2.0.0_rc1 works with nvidia-drivers-295.20 |
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Martux
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Right, this is not about the harddisk update monitor. It is the gpu sensor. Without it gkrellm works like a charm again.  This program really has come to age but it is so goddamn useful. Is anyone aware of a alternative? I tried all these crappy plasmoids in KDE and no way I gonna use them...
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| jburns wrote: | | media-video/vlc-2.0.0_rc1 works with nvidia-drivers-295.20 |
I ran into something similar. When gkrellm starts, it sort of hangs and uses ~100% of two cores but never fills in the text part. When I disable the nvidia sensor, it works fine.
I don't have vlc installed at all. What else could I try? If you know of anything.
Also, is there another program like gkrellm or is it one of a kind? It is nice, simple but nice.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | This program really has come to age but it is so goddamn useful |
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right now gkrellm sits unobtrusively in the bottom right corner of my monitor,
providing instant and continuously updated informaton of: uptime, 3 volume
controls, 5 disk storage stats, swap and memory use, network activity on
two interfaces (plus at the touch of a button in the interface panel upload
and download totals since the machine was built), disk activity, process count,
cpu activity (thread by thread if I want) plus hardware monitoring, time, date
and kernel identification!!!
Any other monitor system I've seen would take the whole desktop to do all
that.
Sad as -- or if -- gkrellm becomes slowly unusable ...
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Could someone explain why this is being characterized as a gkrellm bitrot problem? Every post in this thread seems to point to a problem with the nVidia libraries from the latest update:- Started with the upgrade to a new nVidia version
- Goes away when the nVidia GPU temperature sensor is disabled
- No indications that gkrellm is misusing an nVidia API.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| Well, conky still works, it's reading the nvidia temp just like it did before. |
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| Gusar wrote: | | Well, conky still works, it's reading the nvidia temp just like it did before. |
I installed conky and I can't get it to do nothing at all. I tried as both root and user. Nothing. This is what I get:
| Code: | root@fireball / # conky
Conky: desktop window (140017f) is subwindow of root window (15d)
Conky: window type - desktop
Conky: drawing to created window (0x6800001)
Conky: drawing to single buffer
^CConky: received SIGINT or SIGTERM to terminate. bye!
root@fireball / # |
I didn't see any window pop up at all. It just sits there.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:53 am Post subject: |
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There a wizard for conky
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ConkyWizard?content=126352
if have installed it by:
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svn checkout http://conkywizard.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ conkywizard-read-only
cd conkywizard-read-only/ConkyWizard/
tmake ConkyWizard.pro -o Makefile
cd resources/
rm translations
ln -s ../translations
cd ..
qmake
make
cd ../Application/
./ConkyWizard |
but haven't test this program yet.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Linubie wrote: | There a wizard for conky
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ConkyWizard?content=126352
if have installed it by:
| Code: | export TMAKEPATH=/usr/lib/tmake/linux-g++
svn checkout http://conkywizard.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ conkywizard-read-only
cd conkywizard-read-only/ConkyWizard/
tmake ConkyWizard.pro -o Makefile
cd resources/
rm translations
ln -s ../translations
cd ..
qmake
make
cd ../Application/
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but haven't test this program yet. |
Hmmm, I don't have Gnome on here so that may be one issue. I'm a KDE user. Also, I just did emerge conky then tried to run it. No joy. Looks like emerge -C conky will come soon. Screenshots looked nice tho. 
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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conky is pure X, actually it works even without X. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Gnome.
This will now be extremely rude, but... dude, RTFM. Or not, no one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to use conky. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Gusar wrote: | conky is pure X, actually it works even without X. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Gnome.
This will now be extremely rude, but... dude, RTFM. Or not, no one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to use conky. |
Well, I went to the link you provided. I already read that and others too. Your link doesn't say anything about setting it up and I am not sure it is even a setup issue either. All your link really has is the description and the changelog. That's not going to help me at all. I already know what it is and I'm not interested in the change log since that's most likely not the problem. I don't see a link or a manual either.
I'm not trying to be rude, but maybe you posted the wrong link?
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Linubie
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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No, it just was an information that there is a program
that writes the config file for conky and as I said earler I haven't test it yet.
Maybe there other config programs for conky out there in the world wide web, which suit more your needs.
Using google with the magic word "ConkyWizard" gave me a lot of links. One was the site of the developer,
unfortunately in spanish http://code.google.com/p/conkywizard/
If you'll find a good one or a good config that works, kindly share here, because I used gkrellm too until it broke with the new nvidia-driver.
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| dalek wrote: | | Well, I went to the link you provided. |
I didn't provide any link. No link should be needed. Except it seems putting conky into Google is too difficult for some people nowadays. Yeah, I'm rude again. But jeez... |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Gusar wrote: | | dalek wrote: | | Well, I went to the link you provided. |
I didn't provide any link. No link should be needed. Except it seems putting conky into Google is too difficult for some people nowadays. Yeah, I'm rude again. But jeez... |
Wrong poster on my part. Sorry. There is a link up there. It just doesn't help any. I did not google because there is no error message to google. It appears to be working but nothing comes up. Heck, it even dies nicely when I do a ctrl C.
I guess I just expected it to work out of the box. I guess I was wrong or expecting to much. Back to my hole.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: gkrellm segfaults after nvidia-drivers update |
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| Martux wrote: | After emerging nvidia-drivers-295.20 yesterday and rebooting, gkrellm-2.3.5 suddenly stopped working.
I get this error on konsole (german) which means memory access error:
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gkrellm Speicherzugriffsverletzung: Festplatte (update_monitor)
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same here. after disabling gpu temp sensor. gkrellm works again.
did someone already made a bug report about this? |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Same issue here, gkrellm-2.3.5 works ONLY if you do NOT monitor Nvidia GPU temperatures after upgrading to nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1. This happened to me on two systems: one with a Geforce 470 the other a Quadro 4000. |
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