On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:14:55 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > I left my laptop alone for a while, then I came back and found it > with its cooling fan rotating at full speed, and the image on the > screen completely still (a frame from the screenhack that was > running before the lock up, that is to say > /usr/lib/xscreensaver/atunnel). > The system was completely unresponsive: keyboard/touchpad/mouse > input was completely ignored. > Even the ethernet connection to my LAN was shut down: I had an > SSH session open from another box, but I found the connection > reset! I've been trying to reproduce this bug with xserver-xorg-video-savage/1:2.3.0-1 libc6/2.9-25 xserver-xorg-core/2:1.6.3.901-1 I kept /usr/lib/xscreensaver/atunnel running for quite a while, without any lockup at all. I tested atunnel both in a standalone window (started as /usr/lib/xscreensaver/atunnel from a terminal) and in the xscreensaver-demo preview mode. It seems that atunnel is no longer able to freeze my system. Nonetheless, the test was not completely error free. Indeed, some worrying entries were logged to /var/log/kern.log: [ 582.975686] Xorg:5396 conflicting memory types 90000000-95000000 uncached-minus<->write-combining [ 582.975700] reserve_memtype failed 0x90000000-0x95000000, track uncached-minus, req uncached-minus [ 643.989097] atunnel:5735 conflicting memory types 90000000-95000000 uncached-minus<->write-combining [ 643.989123] reserve_memtype failed 0x90000000-0x95000000, track uncached-minus, req uncached-minus [ 653.768420] atunnel:5737 conflicting memory types 90000000-95000000 uncached-minus<->write-combining [ 653.768446] reserve_memtype failed 0x90000000-0x95000000, track uncached-minus, req uncached-minus [ 686.813969] atunnel:5756 conflicting memory types 90000000-95000000 uncached-minus<->write-combining [ 686.813997] reserve_memtype failed 0x90000000-0x95000000, track uncached-minus, req uncached-minus As a consequence, I am *not* sure that the bug can be safely considered as fixed... -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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