[Bf-committers] 2.63 show-stopper bugs

[Knapp]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Brecht Van Lommel <
brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:

> Please report issues in the bug tracker if you find them and can give
> us steps to redo and investigate the problem. We can't efficiently
> follow up on and keep track of bugs if they are reported here.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to report this to you. I have been having problems for some time
> > with things failing but only when blender has been run. For example Pulse
> > audio will go all staticy and need to be restarted. My guess is that
> > blender has a memory leak or is writing outside of its data area. So
> just a
> > heads up. I really could not say for sure that it is blender but it only
> > happens with blender running. There are also sometimes other problems
> like
> > the graphics not working on other programs when blender has been run.
> > 4GB ram kubuntu 11.04 (just upgraded to 12.04 and have not seen the
> problem
> > YET, but have not done much yet with blender.)
> > Nvidia graphics 8600 gt 512 mb video ram nvidia driver 295.40 (currently
> > but might have been older before).
>

You missed my whole point of posting it here. It is not a traditional bug.
I can't tell you how to reproduce it. I can't even say for sure that it is
Blender but it only happens when blender is running.  It is bad, that is
sure and it is random as far as I can tell. I would guess it has something
to do with memory being written outside of Blender by Blender. What do I
report? Pulse stops working one out of 9 times when blender is run and
sometimes the graphics crash on other programs when blender is no longer
running but has been run? What sort of bug report would that make? Thus, I
brought it up here in the hopes that someone else might have some ideas
about it or at least be aware that it is there. I am open to ideas to turn
this into a good bug report but I don't have any now, however it is a
serious problem.

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