Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:50:06 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-rc5 possible regression: KDE processes die silently (was: 2.6.21-rc3-mm2: KDE processes die while system is idle) |
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 05:21:06PM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > I'm sorry to say this has now happened with kernel 2.6.21-rc5, too. > I started a kernel compilation in the evening and came back in the > morning to find all KDE decorations gone. All processes normally > running for a KDE session and labelled "[kinit]" in ps were gone > but everything else was running fine, and the system was still > usable via ssh. /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log contained > nothing remotely suspicious. /var/log/messages had two lines I > never saw before: > > Mar 31 02:27:36 gx110 kernel: [153577.891443] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item > Mar 31 02:27:36 gx110 kernel: [153577.891559] ReiserFS: hda3: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item
Reiserfs people Cc'ed for this.
> But those didn't appear on previous occurrences of the "dying KDE" > problem so I guess they are not related. > > This is SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) running on a Dell OptiPlex GX110 > (Intel P3, 933 MHz, i810 chipset, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB ATA disk) > % uname -a > Linux gx110 2.6.21-rc5-noinitrd #1 PREEMPT Sat Mar 31 02:15:19 CEST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > % cat /proc/cmdline > root=/dev/hda3 selinux=0 x11i=vesa video=intelfb:mode=1280x1024-32@70 nmi_watchdog=2 lapic 5 > Kernel configuration mostly-modular, based on standard SuSE kernel's > /proc/config.gz, just compiling into the kernel everything I need to > boot without an initrd and omitting some parts I'm not interested in. > (.config attached.) What else might be relevant? > > Again, this is a Heisenbug, ie. it's not reproducible and invariably > happens when I'm away from the machine. (Probably Murphy at work.) > It's pretty rare: I have seen it four times on 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 and > once on 2.6.21-rc5, on a machine which spends about equal amounts > of time running the latest stable, rc, and mm kernels. OTOH, so far > it hasn't ever happened with any 2.6.20 or earlier kernel. Nor have > I seen it with 2.6.21-rc[1-4] or 2.6.21-rc4-mm* - but for the -rc4 > and -rc4-mm releases that's not conclusive as those have only been > running for a very short time.
We also have another report of crashes under KDE:
Subject : crashes in KDE References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8157 Submitter : Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Status : unknown
We also have one bug kwin ran into that got fixed after -rc5:
Subject : kwin dies silently References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/28/112 Submitter : Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk> Boris Mogwitz <boris@macbeth.rhoen.de> Michael Wu <aluminum.tape@gmail.com> Caused-By : Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> commit 0475ac0845f9295bc5f69af45f58dff2c104c8d1 Fixed-By : Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Commit : 14e9d5730adfca26452b3a2838a80af6950556f5 Status : fixed in -rc6
These might or might not be related issues.
> HTH > T.
cu Adrian
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