Re: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1

From: Chris Wright
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 14:10:12 EST


* Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I am experiencing defunct event/0 kernel daemons under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
> > with synaptics_drv 0.11.7, Dmitry Torokhov's gpm-1.20 with synaptics
> > support, and XFree86 4.3.0-10. Moving the touchpad in either X or with
> > gpm causes defunct event/0 processes to be created.
>
> Defunct is odd. Have you run `dmesg' to see if the kernel oopsed?
>
> You could try reverting synaptics-reconnect.patch, and then serio-reconnect.patch from

Andrew, I wonder if this isn't caused by the call_usermodehelper patch.
Looks like you were right ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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