Re: X still locks up

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:22:59PM -0400, Dan Foster wrote:

Hot Diggety! Gwyn Judd was rumored to have wrote:

quoted

Here is an update on the status:

1) I tried installing the Xpmac.rev10 server that someone recommened in
the hope that that would fix the problem. Unfortunately it didn't as
five minutes ago the system locked up yet again. This seems to suggest
it may be kernel related rather than X related.

2) I recompiled my kernel wth the "Magic Sysrq" support in it. This
seems to work more or less as designed. However when the system locked
up as before the "magic sysrq" key did not work at all meaning I had to
reboot without being able to shut down properly. This suggests to me
that the kernel had itself crashed.

Exact same thing on my previously rock solid x86 box - only change was that
I'd just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1 and kernel 2.2.16, from XFree86 3.3.6 and
kernel 2.2.13.

The behavior is identical - makes me wonder if this was the mmap() bug
that BenH previously mentioned, and if this was a cross-platform issue
not just isolated to PPC?

Okay so you get it on x86 2.2.16 and XFree 4.01
I get it on powerpc kernel >= 2.2.15 and XFree3.3.6
Any other takers?

--
Gwyn Judd (b.judd@xtra.co.nz)
Be frank and explicit with your lawyer ... it is his business to confuse
the issue afterwards.

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