Re: 2.5.70 latest: breaks gnome

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Edward Tandi <ed@efix.biz> wrote:
>
> FYI,
> 
> I have just tried mm5. I have Gnome2 working (using kdm) but am still
> having the same problems as mm3:

It would be very interesting to know if these things still happen with just
2.5.70 plus

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.70/2.5.70-mm5/broken-out/linus.patch

> 1) gnome-terminal still only works as root.

Don't know.

> 2) xosview still freezes (reading /proc/*)

We changed the format of /proc/stat and broke xosview.  I just tried 1.8.0,
not joy.

> 3) rmmod still not working -"Can't open 'analog': No such file or
> directory"

need more details on this.

> 4) su - <user> returns "operation not permitted". Works as root though
> and thereafter as <user>.

Don't know.

> 5) This is the second time this has happened after switching to 2.5.x;
> My Evolution groups (left-hand icon bar) have gone missing.

Don't know.  2.5 might be triggering latent bugs in evolution.  It's
happened before..

> 6) from /var/log/messages: /sbin/mingetty[2583]: /dev/tty4: cannot open
> tty: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Don't know.

> 7) Excessive "anticipatory scheduling elevator" messages allover in
> /var/log/messages.

Will fix sometime.

> 8) from dmesg: process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT

Overly noisy warning.  How frequently do they occur?

> I think there is something "not quite right" in the terminal I/O area.

Tracking down the kernel version at which this started to occur would be
good.