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From: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: 2.6.0-test5: intermittent crash on chvt to X; was console lost to Ctrl+Alt+F$n in 2.6.0-test5
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:15:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309150915.11181.mhf@linuxmail.org> (raw)

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Andrew,

Interresting VT/X switching issue which does not happen with 2.4

Regards
Michael

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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5: intermittent crash on chvt to X; was console lost to Ctrl+Alt+F$n in 2.6.0-test5
Date: Monday 15 September 2003 07:04
From: Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org>
To: mhf@linuxmail.org
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


> qestion now is whether this is kernel or X related.

Oh.

> > echo ... | tee -a $log
> > sync
> > sleep $wait
> > chvt ...
> > sleep $wait
>
> the crash may (in your case does) happen later

In repeating those five commands, is there any purpose to the first
sleep?  I left the first sleep in place to match the original, but once
I assume sync leaves no writes unflushed then now I do not see what the
first sleep accomplishes, if anything.

> Have you had this problem with an earlier 2.6 or 2.4 kernel?

Today 2.4.21-xfs Knoppix booted via cd:
in over 75 cycles I saw no crash so I gave up.

Today 2.4.22 with a near default .config:
"in over 75 cycles I saw no crash so I gave up".

Today 2.6.0-test4 with a near default .config:
Counting cycles before crash per boot I saw: 3 2 16 ...

Yester/today 2.6.0-test5 with a near default .config:
"I saw: 1 18 20 20 ... 4 16 ..." 3 ...

> -test5, post (as tar.bz2) ...

After that last -test5 crash I rebooted and then produced the attached
via:

#!/bin/bash
# rm -r chvtx
mkdir chvtx

sudo /sbin/lspci -v >>chvtx/v.lspci
sudo cat /var/log/dmesg >>chvtx/var.log.dmesg
egrep -i 'version|release|driver' /var/log/XFree86.*.log >>chvtx/var.log.XFree86.log
# cp -ip /var/log/XFree86.*.log chvtx/
cp -ip .config chvtx/config

tar -c chvtx | bzip2 -zc >chvtx.2.6.0-test5.tar.bz2

# Pat LaVarre




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