Re: Freeze in 2.3.29

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:31:37 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Michael Meskes wrote:
> >
> > I just found a strange way to freeze (kind of )2.3.29 which otherise is rock
> > solid for me.
> >
> > If I try to display the attached GIF using imagemagick from a remote host my
> > Xserver freezes. That is I start X, rlogin to my notebook, call 'display
> > 22383.rpv' and the mouse disappears. Killing the display command makes no
> > difference at all.
> >
> > Now that in itself is not a problem but I cannot do anything from X not even
> > go back to console. So I thought I found a bug in X and used the notebook to
> > log back into my machine. This works without a problem. I called ps to find
> > the X pid but ps never came back.

It means that X got stuck in the middle of do_exit(). Very funny...

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