RE: The time has come ...
This seems like it is a bug that has been discussed on the
sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu mailing list:
On Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:56 PM, Anton Blanchard
[SMTP:anton@progsoc.uts.edu.au] wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> > I have a different, but possibly related problem. My system freezes
> > when X tries to shut down or is killed. It works properly, with
> > 2.1.125/2.1.126 UP (or even two processors) or with 2.0.35 UP.
Anyone
> > else with more than two processors seeing something like this?
>
> Can you ping it when this happens? I'll look at getting bwtwo+X
happening and
> then see if I can reproduce your problem.
>
> If anyone else is having sparc32 SMP problems, could they email me the
details?
>
> Cheers,
> Anton
On Monday, November 23, 1998 8:41 AM, Jules Bean
[SMTP:jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk] wrote:
> --On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 6:36 pm +0100 "Christian Meder"
> <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 06:24:46PM +0100, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
> >> > > I'll upload new xfree packages which are based on -8 in an hour
or so
> ..
> >> >
> >> > Hmm.
> >> >
> >> > They're broken here.
> >> >
> >> > xdm causes the kernel to halt (back to PROM prompt - 'program
> terminated').
> >>
> >> What kernel version? (It's definitely a kernel bug that it ends up
at the
> PROM
> >> prompt, but we should none the less try and keep xdm from
triggering it.)
>
> OK.
>
> After trying in 2.0.35, I realised that I didn't have xfonts-base
installed.
>
> So I installed those. Then, X works flawlessly under 2.0.35 (well,
after a
> very brief test..).
>
> I switched back to 2.1.125 and the situation is now:
>
> startx as root works OK, but when you end the X-session, the kernel
halts
> itself.
>
> xdm works OK, but if you kill xdm (/etc/init.d/xdm stop) the kernel
commits
> suicide :-(
>
> Jules
>
>
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