Re: Kernel hang on multi-threaded X process crash

[Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org>]

On 2001.04.22 19:27 Manuel McLure wrote:
> 
> On 2001.04.22 18:55 Manuel McLure wrote:
> 
> > The machine is an Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz with 256M of PC133 DRAM on
> an
> > MSI K7T Turbo R motherboard. I am running 2.4.3-ac12 currently,
> > 2.4.3-ac11
> > and 2.4.3-ac5 hung the same way at least once each before I started
> > tracking this down. I am running Red Hat 7.1, and am using the
> > XFree86-4.0.3 RPMs that come with RH71 with the CVS DRI trunk installed
> > over it. The kernel was built with kgcc, a gcc-2.96 built kernel has
> the
> > same problem.
> 
> Following up on myself, I replaced the contents of /usr/X11R6 server with
> the standard 4.0.3 RPMs that come with RH 7.1 and it made no difference.
> Also, if it's important my video card is a Voodoo 5 5500.

To follow up on my followup, I can now reproduce this 100% and get the
"Trying to vfree()..." message on the console. To do this I start Mozilla,
switch to a text console, and do a "killall -QUIT mozilla". A couple of
"Trying to vfree()..." messages later, it's big red switch time.

I'm going to try this with standard 2.4.3 as well as the 2.4.2 that comes
with RH71 - hopefully my filesystem will handle all the fscks :-(
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