Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 09:10 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> > The system appears to be ok and boots happily to a console but if you
> > load any graphical UI, the screen will blank and the process stops
> > working (tested with opie and and xserver+GPE). You can kill -9 the
> > process but you can't regain the console without a suspend/resume cycle
> > which performs enough of a reset to get it back. chvt and the console
> > switching keys don't respond.
> 
> Is this related to the size of the process? Can you do a successful kernel 
> compile w/o X?

Its an embedded device and lacks development tools to test that. I ran
some programs which abuse malloc and the process would quite happily hit
oom so it looks like something more is needed to trigger the bug...

> > I tried the patch mentioned in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/28/304 but it
> > makes no difference.
> 
> Yes that only helps if compilation fails and its alread in rc4-mm1 AFAIK.

I thought that might be the case.

Richard