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Bug#253660: Test results



If you're interested in knowing what hardware I'm playing with, it's right here...

http://www.kontron.com/products/pdproductdetail.cfm?keyProduct=31518

You could ask why I'm trying to run neverball on this, knowing that the performance is likely to be so poor as to make it unplayable... and I'd answer "I agree, but X shouldn't crash".

Okay, I got the debug X server installed and activated, then logged in on console 1 as root, and:

# /etc/init.d/kdm stop
# ulimit -c unlimited
# startx $(which x-terminal-emulator)

I now have a lone, bare Konsole...

# /usr/games/neverball

X promptly crashes with signal 11. I'm back at tty1 but now I have a problem: the machine seems to be locked up. It isn't responding to keypresses and I can't seem to ssh in. The last line I see is:

  Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.

Normally I see a shell prompt immediately after this.

I've tried turning off swap, reducing the number of kernel modules I load on boot to an absolute minimum, making sure I have way more free disk space than my total RAM size, and even bypassing the Konsole and loading Neverball directly, ie.:

# startx /usr/games/neverball

and X still crashes, and my machine still locks up solid when X exits. After rebooting, there's no core dump file on the disk.

If I skip the "ulimit" step, I don't get a lockup when X crashes, but obviously I don't get a core file either.

Any ideas?

-- graham




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