Messages in this thread |  | | From | Steven Cole <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test11-ac2 and ac4 SMP will not run KDE 2.0 | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:32:40 -0700 |
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Alan Cox wrote: > >> For what its worth, on my single processor home machine, all kernels >> 2.4.0-test11-ac1,ac2,ac3, ac4 both UP and SMP run both Gnome and >> KDE 2.0, with reiserfs-3.6.19. In other words, everything works with >> everything. > >Nod. It actually puzzles me since from the kernel view I doubt kde and gnome >even look different at the syscall level. They may look different to X but >X isnt the thing that changed
Agreed. I suspect that this could be a rough spot with reiserfs-3.6.19. I observed one similar freezup while doing tar zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz while running 2.4.0-test11-pre7, patched with reiserfs-3.6.19.
I and others have experienced some off-normal behaviour with reiserfs, like crashing when saving a file on top of itself with StarOffice 5.2 when the file was on an NFS server. That particular bug was fixed in reiserfs-3.6.14, IIRC. But even with the few rough edges, reiserfs has become essential to our operations, with its ability to recover so quickly after a UPS has caused problems. That's why I'm following the 2.4.0 development so closely with reiserfs.
I was never able to reproduce the tar freeze. The freeze which I observed with test11-ac2,4 SMP and KDE 2.0 was very reproducable; I saw it at least 6 times, always in exactly the same place of the startup of KDE 2.0.
Tomorrow when I have access to the two-way P-III problem machine, I'll repatch 2.4.0-test11-ac4 with reiserfs-3.6.18, which is a little less bleeding edge than reiserfs-3.6.19.
Meanwhile, 2.4.0-test12-pre2 patched with reiserfs-3.6.19 is running nicely with KDE 2.0 on the uniprocessor home machine.
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