From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbVHAUG5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:06:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261202AbVHAUEa (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:04:30 -0400 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([194.106.48.114]:45528 "EHLO tim.rpsys.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261211AbVHAUCg (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:02:36 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 From: Richard Purdie To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050728025840.0596b9cb.akpm@osdl.org> <1122860603.7626.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:02:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1122926537.7648.105.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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