| Summary: | Terminal hangs and hogs CPU when running make menuconfig on a 2.5 kernel tree | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Antonio Vargas <wind> | ||||
| Component: | vte | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | kas, wtogami | ||||
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-05 03:23:50 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 91188 [details]
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I have reproduced this. Anything that causes lots of text to fly by quickly in gnome-terminal can cause this lockup when using kernel-2.5.x. Workaround: If you start a process that has lots of text flying by, but minimize the window, it wont lockup. I have reproduced this - even running "make menuconfig" locks up the terminal, when it is vertically maximized. However - I've first experienced this after booting to 2.6.0-test1 kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. I was running the standard 2.4.x kernel when I saw it. According to linux-kernel mailing list, this is an application bug uncovered by the new O(1) scheduler. Relevant thread: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2003-07/msg00275.html Message-ID: <6uwueidhdd.fsf@zork.zork.net> It sounds like this is an old kernel problem. I'm going to close the bug, but if people are still experiencing problems using recent packages, please feel free to reopen. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.2.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. unpack a 2.5 kernel tree somewhere 2. goto directory 3. make menuconfig 4. drill down 2 or 3 times 5. press exit several time to get back to main menu Actual Results: The terminal hangs Expected Results: Get back to the main menu just like when first entering it. Additional info: Tried both with and without AA fonts on gnome-terminal, it failed always. Tried the same on xterm, it worked. Tried the same on xterm with AA fonts, it worked. Machine is Athlon 900, 256mb ram, nvidia tnt1 card with standard nv.o Xfree driver (no nvidia driver).