Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

[Sid Boyce]

Sid Boyce wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > (cc restored.  Please always do reply-to-all)
> >
> >  
> > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:13 +0200 auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:19, Sid Boyce wrote:
> > >    
> > > > openSUSE 10.3 Alpha and KDE-3.5.6, xorg-x11-7.2. KDE is setup not to
> > > > require a password to unlock, but it asks for password. When the screen
> > > > unlocks, kwin is gone with no errors logged in /var/log/kdm or
> > > > /var/log/messages. No problems with 2.6.20.
> > > >
> > > > Same problem on openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, KDE-3.5.5 and 2.6.21-rc2.
> > > > Regards
> > > > Sid.
> > > >       
> > > This is the linux kernel mailing list. Perhaps you should post your 
> > > problem to the opensuse mailing list.
> > >     
> >
> > 2.6.20 worked.
> >
> > 2.6.20-rc2 did not.
> >
> > Working theory: the kernel broke.
> >
> > Sid, the chances that anyone can work out what caused this are pretty 
> > low. It would be great if you could perform a git bisection search 
> > sometime in
> > the next few weeks, work out which commit caused this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> I shall go back to 2.6.20-git3 and work forward. Up to 2.6.20-git2 was OK.
> Regards
> Sid.

I tracked the problem down to 2.6.20-git11. Up to 2.6.20-git10 is OK, 
but from 2.6.20-git11 up to current 2.6.21-rc4-git2 all exhibit the problem.
Regards
Sid.
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