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Re: [LUG] Video Playing Problem

 

It would be interesting to see if it is a kabylake problem and Linux.

Thanks for all the help though.

Rich


On 2 January 2018 at 21:58, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 30/12/17 20:43, Richard Brown wrote:
>
>> Ok to answer the first point. When I typed Desktop Session it simply
>> said Gnome. So I am assuming Gnome +Xorg. The crashing happens when I
>> open a file browser. It also crashes when I go to system. But it
>> doesn't all the time and from what I can remember no one single thing
>> causes a crash.
>>
>> Gnome Shell quit unexpectedly.
>> Running Gnome-shell 3.26.2-2.fc27.x86_64
>> It won't show me the details just crashes again. It says under reports
>> ABRT Server
>>
>> Found out more
>> reason gnome-software killed by SIGSEGV
>> crash function gtk_stack_set_visible_child_name
>>
>> As to the Fedy - sorry I did install but can't find anything called
>> Fedy. So I presume installing Fedy simply adds the codecs but I'm
>> unsure.
>
> Fedy can do quite a lot of stuff including install codecs but you've got
> to get it installed first - you launch the program like you would any
> other so if you can't find it after running the installation command
> from the homepage then something has gone wrong. I'd guess that thing
> was probably you not prefixing the install command with sudo? Read your
> computer's feedback messages more carefully, it would have told you at
> the time quite clearly you needed to run the command with root
> privileges. Try again, use sudo and then run fedy afterwards.
>
> As for the other stuff, wow, your problems just never end do they? You
> do indeed seem to be running the Gnome+Xorg session type now at least
> but gnome-shell crashing every time you open Nautilus or the System
> panel sounds pretty terrible. I don't want to open another can of worms
> but that needs serious attention as well by the sounds of it. Almost
> definitely going to be broken Nivida drivers.
>
> Have you tried any system that _isn't_  hopelessly broken on that
> workstation? It seems to be absolute nightmare...
>
> Cheers
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