From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932212AbXCHFus (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:50:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932262AbXCHFus (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:50:48 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:49695 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932212AbXCHFur (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:50:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:47:30 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: auxsvr@gmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sid Boyce , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently Message-Id: <20070307214730.87859590.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200702281805.13822.auxsvr@gmail.com> References: <45E59D64.3070202@blueyonder.co.uk> <200702281805.13822.auxsvr@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (cc restored. Please always do reply-to-all) > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:13 +0200 auxsvr@gmail.com 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.