On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:36:41PM -0400, a little birdie told me
that Luoqi Chen remarked
> Here's the better fix, please let me know if it works,
I won't be in a position to crash this box again until tomorrow, but I'll
give it a whirl then.
Thanks.
> Index: tty_pty.c
> ===
> It seems that screen was trying to flush the master pty, before the slave
> tty was even open. We were lucky that this didn't crash our machines before
> the dev_t changes, it only caused the console to be flushed instead. But
> after the dev_t changes, it is fatal. Try this fix (band-aid only, b
This looks a lot like the "I didn't use 'config -r' to generate my
latest kernel build tree" problem.
> Well, this apparently doesn't involve X, only screen.
> (X may still be broken/flaky, but this doesn't involve it specifically)
> This time I just ran screen on a vty, and *poof*
>
> --
It seems that screen was trying to flush the master pty, before the slave
tty was even open. We were lucky that this didn't crash our machines before
the dev_t changes, it only caused the console to be flushed instead. But
after the dev_t changes, it is fatal. Try this fix (band-aid only, better
fi
Well, this apparently doesn't involve X, only screen.
(X may still be broken/flaky, but this doesn't involve it specifically)
This time I just ran screen on a vty, and *poof*
--
Looking at the trace below, does this look like a (if not the) problem?
#10 0xc0162490 in ttyflush (tp=0xc029dc20,
