Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:43:11PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
(cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all)


On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:13 +0200 auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:19, Sid Boyce wrote:

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha and KDE-3.5.6, xorg-x11-7.2. KDE is setup not to
require a password to unlock, but it asks for password. When the screen
unlocks, kwin is gone with no errors logged in /var/log/kdm or
/var/log/messages. No problems with 2.6.20.

Same problem on openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, KDE-3.5.5 and 2.6.21-rc2.
Regards
Sid.

This is the linux kernel mailing list. Perhaps you should post your
problem to the opensuse mailing list.


2.6.20 worked.

2.6.20-rc2 did not.

Working theory: the kernel broke.

Sid, the chances that anyone can work out what caused this are pretty
low. It would be great if you could perform a git bisection search
sometime in
the next few weeks, work out which commit caused this.

Thanks.




I shall go back to 2.6.20-git3 and work forward. Up to 2.6.20-git2 was OK.
Regards
Sid.


I tracked the problem down to 2.6.20-git11. Up to 2.6.20-git10 is OK,
but from 2.6.20-git11 up to current 2.6.21-rc4-git2 all exhibit the problem.

Thanks for this search.

Looking at the changes between 2.6.20-git10 and 2.6.20-git11, the only
suspicious changes are the 60 sysctl patches by Eric.

Eric, can you look at this issue?

Regards
Sid.

cu
Adrian

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