Minor vt issue (probably a race)

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 11 00:01:50 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:58:51PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> vt has been working for me for a while, but I have encountered an annoying
> issue. Only a little annoying, but it looks like a race and my have less
> obvious impacts. Since the patch to prevent crashes when resuming with vt,
> I have seen the problem.
> 
> When I suspend, the system sometimes switches to vty0 before suspending,
> but often does not. When it fails to switch on suspend, it does so a few
> seconds after resume. I have been able to simply switch back to X
> (<ALT+F9>) and everything was normal. If that i its only impact, it's no
> big deal, but I fear that this may have deeper implications that I don't
> see, so I wanted to report it.

I've seen this too.  But, it's been too inconsistent for me to report.

The other thing I noticed, maybe unrelated, is X is no longer "laggy"
for me after resume since the relevant commit.

Related?  I have no idea.

Glen

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