Re: 2.5.44-mm2 CONFIG_SHAREPTE necessary for starting KDE 3.0.3

Steven Cole
2002-10-22T17:20:36Z

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:01, Steven Cole wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> My experience with 2.5.44-mm2 and KDE 3 runs counter to the experience
> of some others. I've booted several kernels this morning on my UP test
> box and found that starting KDE 3.0.3 using XFree86 4.2.1 _requires_
> that CONFIG_SHAREPTE=y for my system. All kernels were UP and PREEMPT.
> With CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y and nmi_watchdog=1, the results were the
> same.
>
> If SHAREPTE is not set, then the KDE startup fails with a frozen pointer
> after the initial dark blue screen changes to black. This does appear
> to be KDE-related. When Gnome is my default desktop, that works just
> fine with 2.5.44-mm2 and CONFIG_SHAREPTE not set.
>

After reading my own mail, I realized that I should have checked to see
if disabling PREEMPT did any good in this case.

I just booted 2.5.44-mm2 without PREEMPT and without SHAREPTE, and KDE
3.0.3 was able to start up OK.