HEADS UP: UNIX domain socket locking changes merged to CVS HEAD

[Randall Stewart]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:00:15PM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote:
>> Robert Watson wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
>>>> Since this commit, I've been observing frequent deadlocks on my laptop, 
>>>> mostly when starting-up gnome. It usually takes less than 5 to 10 minutes for 
>>>> the deadlock to happens.
> 
> I too have been having unexpected lockups--like Randall, I figured it
> was something to do with my machine.  Interestingly enough, though X
> will lock up completely (and I can't ssh to the machine, though I can
> ping it) the jail, which runs a small web site, running on an alias ip
> address continues to work--I can still access the web site from outside.
> 
> However, I haven't been able to apply Robert's patch yet.  As some of
> you have noticed, there's a bunch of tinderbox failures dying in
> netstat.  It's happening to me too, so I haven't been able to rebuild.
> 
> (this is more of a me too post at this point--I haven't had a chance to
> do any investigation).
> 
> 
Well

I was able to build.. and so far no lockup's.

The frustrating thing was it would always free in X.. and I could
not get back out to get a trace... I am glad that someone else did :-D

So the good news is once you can build .. it seems to be the problem
is solved.. of course I still could lock up.. but only using
X will tell :-0

R

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Randall Stewart
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