Re: compiler version.

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Ken Tyler wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > But how do you imagine GNOME would cause these crashes? If anything
> > from user space, I'd rather suspect the X server.
> 
> I've tried several X servers, off CD, debian, I just compiled X 4.0.2
> which works (with the slow logout screen and no SHAPE), they all run.
> But I still get the same crashes with all of them.

The SHAPE extension is probably missing because Load "extmod" isn't in the
Module Section, and the slow GNOME logout should be fixed as of 4.0.99.2 .


> When it does crash my computer is locked up solid, no heartbeat and no
> sysreq which shouldn't happen from user space either.
> 
> The task is always X related.
> 
> TASK = c0b24000[544] 'X' mm->pgd c0d17000 Last syscall: 146
> TASK =c1db2000[547] 'gnome-smproxy' mm->pgd c1e61000 Last syscall: 54
> TASK = c17c4000[576] 'gmc' mm->pgd c1a1c000 Last syscall: 13

I doubt the task is very informative other than the fact that you see both the
X server and clients, which IMHO points to a kernel problem, be it compiler or
code related. It's just the process in the time slice of which the panic
happens.

Does ksymoops give any useful information?


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