From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933174AbXCURnO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:43:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933165AbXCURnO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:43:14 -0400 Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.7]:42689 "EHLO smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933174AbXCURnN (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:43:13 -0400 Message-ID: <46016EAF.6010801@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:43:11 +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: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: auxsvr@gmail.com, 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> <45EFBC73.2030005@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45EFBC73.2030005@blueyonder.co.uk> 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 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. -- 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