On Tuesday, 3 April 2007 01:06, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:48:03PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday, 1 April 2007 17:21, 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 > > > > > > 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 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. > > > > I have a similar problem on x86_64 OpenSUSE 10.2, but it seems to happen > > when a sound (eg. notification) is played while the display is suspended > > (or "powered off"). > > Is it easily reproducible and still present with the latest -git? > If yes, can you bisect? > > > IMO it's a SUSE bug. > > We also have a report of KDE crashes on Debian [1]. > And just a few days ago a kernel bug kwin ran into was fixed [2]. > > If the pattern is "works with 2.6.20 but does not work with 2.6.21-rc", > then it's most likely a kernel regression.
Well, I'm not able to reproduce it with the current mainline, so let's hope it's been fixed. :-) Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
