From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933813AbXCUTeS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:34:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933817AbXCUTeS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:34:18 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:37412 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933813AbXCUTeR (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:34:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:34:20 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Sid Boyce , "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, auxsvr@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently Message-ID: <20070321193420.GP752@stusta.de> References: <45E59D64.3070202@blueyonder.co.uk> <200702281805.13822.auxsvr@gmail.com> <20070307214730.87859590.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45EFBC73.2030005@blueyonder.co.uk> <46016EAF.6010801@blueyonder.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46016EAF.6010801@blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:43:11PM +0000, Sid Boyce wrote: > Sid Boyce wrote: > >Andrew Morton wrote: > >>(cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all) > >> > >> > >>>On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:13 +0200 auxsvr@gmail.com wrote: > >>>On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:19, Sid Boyce wrote: > >>> > >>>>openSUSE 10.3 Alpha and KDE-3.5.6, xorg-x11-7.2. KDE is setup not to > >>>>require a password to unlock, but it asks for password. When the screen > >>>>unlocks, kwin is gone with no errors logged in /var/log/kdm or > >>>>/var/log/messages. No problems with 2.6.20. > >>>> > >>>>Same problem on openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, KDE-3.5.5 and 2.6.21-rc2. > >>>>Regards > >>>>Sid. > >>>> > >>>This is the linux kernel mailing list. Perhaps you should post your > >>>problem to the opensuse mailing list. > >>> > >> > >>2.6.20 worked. > >> > >>2.6.20-rc2 did not. > >> > >>Working theory: the kernel broke. > >> > >>Sid, the chances that anyone can work out what caused this are pretty > >>low. It would be great if you could perform a git bisection search > >>sometime in > >>the next few weeks, work out which commit caused this. > >> > >>Thanks. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >I shall go back to 2.6.20-git3 and work forward. Up to 2.6.20-git2 was OK. > >Regards > >Sid. > > > > I tracked the problem down to 2.6.20-git11. Up to 2.6.20-git10 is OK, > but from 2.6.20-git11 up to current 2.6.21-rc4-git2 all exhibit the problem. Thanks for this search. Looking at the changes between 2.6.20-git10 and 2.6.20-git11, the only suspicious changes are the 60 sysctl patches by Eric. Eric, can you look at this issue? > Regards > Sid. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed