Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

Sid Boyce
2007-03-21T17:43:14Z

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.
Regards
Sid.
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