Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

[Sid Boyce]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> (cc restored.  Please always do reply-to-all)
>
>   
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:13 +0200 auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:19, Sid Boyce wrote:
> >     
> > > openSUSE 10.3 Alpha and KDE-3.5.6, xorg-x11-7.2. KDE is setup not to
> > > require a password to unlock, but it asks for password. When the screen
> > > unlocks, kwin is gone with no errors logged in /var/log/kdm or
> > > /var/log/messages. No problems with 2.6.20.
> > >
> > > Same problem on openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, KDE-3.5.5 and 2.6.21-rc2.
> > > Regards
> > > Sid.
> > >       
> > This is the linux kernel mailing list. Perhaps you should post your problem to 
> > the opensuse mailing list.
> >     
>
> 2.6.20 worked.
>
> 2.6.20-rc2 did not.
>
> Working theory: the kernel broke.
>
> Sid, the chances that anyone can work out what caused this are pretty low. 
> It would be great if you could perform a git bisection search sometime in
> the next few weeks, work out which commit caused this.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>   
I shall go back to 2.6.20-git3 and work forward. Up to 2.6.20-git2 was OK.
Regards
Sid.

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