Re: [PATCH 2.5.41-mm1] new snapshot of shared page tables

William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-10T03:19:28Z

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:04:47PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> After realizing (thanks Dave) that kmail 3.03 has a bug saving
> multipart/mixed mime messages, I was able to use uudeview to extract
> a clean patch, and build kernel which boot fine. Thats the good news.
> When I try to start kde 3.03 on an up to date debian sid (X 4.2 etc)
> kde fails to start. It complains that ksmserver cannot be started.
> Same setup works with 41-mm1.
> Know this is not a meaty report. With X4.2 I have not yet figgered
> out how to get more debug messages (the log from xstart is anemic)
> nor is there anything in messages, kern.log or on the serial console.
> The box is a K6-III 400 on a via MVP3 chipset.
> What other info can I gather?
> Ed Tomlinson

Could you strace ksmserver on a working and non-working console and
(privately) send (probably large) logs to dmc & me? Please use
strace -f -ff or some equivalent that follows children.

I'll try to reproduce something locally.

Thanks,
Bill