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

Sid Boyce
2007-03-08T07:34:27Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> (cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all)
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>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:13 +0200 auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:19, Sid Boyce wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 2.6.20 worked.
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> 2.6.20-rc2 did not.
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> Working theory: the kernel broke.
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> 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.
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> Thanks.
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I shall go back to 2.6.20-git3 and work forward. Up to 2.6.20-git2 was OK.
Regards
Sid.

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