Libthr stable enough for testing
Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net
Thu May 29 15:39:27 PDT 2003
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:20:02AM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:32 -0500 Dan Nelson
> <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> > The real problem is in the kernel, though. A userland non-root
> > process should not be able to hard lock the system. One of the
> > threads people will probably have to get an SMP machine to be able
> > to debug it.
>
>
> Upon first reading it I had assumed he meant gnome locked up. Can you
> confirm this Glenn? Is the machine itself locked solid (no ping, no
> ssh, not vtys, etc)? However, even if that is the case a bug in the
> kernel does not preclude a bug in libthr.
The machine locks up solid. I can not do anything with it except hit
the reset button. I mentioned gnome because gnome will trigger the
lock up. I would imagine I would see the same thing with kde however.
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Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net
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