Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Markus wrote:

> Well, now some windows vanished, but no additional messages were 
> produced by kernel. When somebody could tell what I exactly need to 
> do... would be nice.
> Or a hit, in what direction I should look. Because its really nasty to 
> not being able to use a current kernel.
> 
> I already rebuild the whole system, as suggested by the gentoo-devs, 
> without success.
> 
> I could also try to debug/strace/whatever the apps and wait for it to 
> disappear.

Well, you could attach strace to all likely crash candidates like

strace -etrace=none -o/tmp/<pid>.trace -p<pid>

which would at least tell you what signal it caught...

good luck
Guennadi

> 
> Just talk to me, I am not able to do this on my own...
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Markus wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi again!
> > > 
> > > The memtest ran 14 passes (~10h) without an error.
> > > 
> > > I now have a 2.6.24-rc4 with some debug-options turned on, waiting 
> for 
> > > something to happen... can I just leave it untill a window 
> disappears 
> > > or do I need to manually enable something or run some user-space 
> app?!
> > 
> > It depends - different options have it differently. Most simple ones 
> are 
> > just compile-time, so, you don't have to enable them. Look in "help" 
> for 
> > respective debug-options.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Guennadi
> > ---
> > Guennadi Liakhovetski
> > 
> 
> 

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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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