Bug 3893
| Summary: | X server dies regularly under RH6.0/Alpha. XFS related | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Steve Holland <sh1> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | ken.crandall, rads |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | alpha | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-09-23 18:14:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Is there anything you are doing that specifically triggers the program failures, or is it completely random in nature? If you can come up with a reproducible test case we can debug this, otherwise it is going to be much more difficult. I have an AnotherLevel configuration set which triggers the problem 100% of the time on login. Let me know to whom I should send the tarball. *** Bug 4073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I have an Alpha PWS600 with a Permedia 2 video card. I start x (gnome or kde) and it hangs. I start an xterm or gnome-term, I do not get a prompt and xfs dies? When I goto logout of gnome or kde, the system locks up. the compiler has been miscompiling one of the routines the X font server on alpha. We have found a workaround for the next release. |
on a fairly regular basis under RH6.0 on the Alpha (I am using a matrox millenium card), several things happen simultaneously: - The X server refuses to open additional windows (any new clients just hang) - Already opened clients keep running and are still usable - The X server starts using 100% of the CPU - The x font server xfs dies side bug: X refuses to start if xfs is dead Disabling xfs and putting the font path in XF86Config seems to help