From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932899AbXCHHe1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 02:34:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932932AbXCHHe1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 02:34:27 -0500 Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.8]:40492 "EHLO smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932899AbXCHHe0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 02:34:26 -0500 Message-ID: <45EFBC73.2030005@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:34:11 +0000 From: Sid Boyce Reply-To: g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk Organization: blueyonder.co.uk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: auxsvr@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently References: <45E59D64.3070202@blueyonder.co.uk> <200702281805.13822.auxsvr@gmail.com> <20070307214730.87859590.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070307214730.87859590.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks