From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966058AbXDBWvq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 18:51:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966061AbXDBWvn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 18:51:43 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:41127 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966044AbXDBWuI (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 18:50:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:50:06 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, Oliver Pinter , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5 possible regression: KDE processes die silently (was: 2.6.21-rc3-mm2: KDE processes die while system is idle) Message-ID: <20070402225006.GI14134@stusta.de> References: <4601B3D0.3060600@imap.cc> <460FCDE2.1080503@imap.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <460FCDE2.1080503@imap.cc> 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 Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:21:06PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > I'm sorry to say this has now happened with kernel 2.6.21-rc5, too. > I started a kernel compilation in the evening and came back in the > morning to find all KDE decorations gone. All processes normally > running for a KDE session and labelled "[kinit]" in ps were gone > but everything else was running fine, and the system was still > usable via ssh. /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log contained > nothing remotely suspicious. /var/log/messages had two lines I > never saw before: > > Mar 31 02:27:36 gx110 kernel: [153577.891443] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item > Mar 31 02:27:36 gx110 kernel: [153577.891559] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item Reiserfs people Cc'ed for this. > But those didn't appear on previous occurrences of the "dying KDE" > problem so I guess they are not related. > > This is SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) running on a Dell OptiPlex GX110 > (Intel P3, 933 MHz, i810 chipset, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB ATA disk) > % uname -a > Linux gx110 2.6.21-rc5-noinitrd #1 PREEMPT Sat Mar 31 02:15:19 CEST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > % cat /proc/cmdline > root=/dev/hda3 selinux=0 x11i=vesa video=intelfb:mode=1280x1024-32@70 nmi_watchdog=2 lapic 5 > Kernel configuration mostly-modular, based on standard SuSE kernel's > /proc/config.gz, just compiling into the kernel everything I need to > boot without an initrd and omitting some parts I'm not interested in. > (.config attached.) What else might be relevant? > > Again, this is a Heisenbug, ie. it's not reproducible and invariably > happens when I'm away from the machine. (Probably Murphy at work.) > It's pretty rare: I have seen it four times on 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 and > once on 2.6.21-rc5, on a machine which spends about equal amounts > of time running the latest stable, rc, and mm kernels. OTOH, so far > it hasn't ever happened with any 2.6.20 or earlier kernel. Nor have > I seen it with 2.6.21-rc[1-4] or 2.6.21-rc4-mm* - but for the -rc4 > and -rc4-mm releases that's not conclusive as those have only been > running for a very short time. We also have another report of crashes under KDE: Subject : crashes in KDE References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8157 Submitter : Oliver Pinter Status : unknown We also have one bug kwin ran into that got fixed after -rc5: Subject : kwin dies silently References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/28/112 Submitter : Sid Boyce Boris Mogwitz Michael Wu Caused-By : Eric W. Biederman commit 0475ac0845f9295bc5f69af45f58dff2c104c8d1 Fixed-By : Eric W. Biederman Commit : 14e9d5730adfca26452b3a2838a80af6950556f5 Status : fixed in -rc6 These might or might not be related issues. > HTH > T. 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