On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 09:10 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > The system appears to be ok and boots happily to a console but if you > > load any graphical UI, the screen will blank and the process stops > > working (tested with opie and and xserver+GPE). You can kill -9 the > > process but you can't regain the console without a suspend/resume cycle > > which performs enough of a reset to get it back. chvt and the console > > switching keys don't respond. > > Is this related to the size of the process? Can you do a successful kernel > compile w/o X?
Its an embedded device and lacks development tools to test that. I ran some programs which abuse malloc and the process would quite happily hit oom so it looks like something more is needed to trigger the bug... > > I tried the patch mentioned in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/28/304 but it > > makes no difference. > > Yes that only helps if compilation fails and its alread in rc4-mm1 AFAIK. I thought that might be the case. Richard - 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/
