Re: Regression in gdm-2.18 since 2.6.24

[Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:18:25PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:37:17PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:20:00AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Friday, 4 of April 2008, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please unset CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED and retest.  It is known to cause problems
> > > > > (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9969, for example).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Rafael
> > > >  Thanks for the suggestion.  Tried it on 2.6.24.4, and
> > > > double-checked /proc/config.gz after booting -
> > > > 
> > > > # CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set
> > > > 
> > > >  Unfortunately, the first test reboot failed in the same way.
> > > 
> > > Please unset CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED too.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rafael
> > 
> >  Yet again, I'm confused.  I thought you'd missed a word in what you
> > asked because the config for 2.6.24.4 doesn't show this.
> > ken@bluesbreaker ~ $zgrep GROUP /proc/config.gz 
> > # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
> > # CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is not set
> > ken@bluesbreaker ~ $
> > 
> >  I _can_ see it in the 2.6.25 configs (except for rc1).  Will retry
> > rc8 with them both turned off.
> > 
> 
> Right, in 2.6.24 we called it CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED since group
> scheduling was available only for CFS. In 2.6.25 we have group
> scheduling for RT as well, so it is called CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED now.
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> Dhaval
 OK, thanks for the explanation.  Just gave -rc8 the first test with
CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED unset, and again it fails.

Ken
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