Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur: <= 2.6.20-.1 Distribution: debian 4.0 Hardware Environment: asus p4c800 p4ht(northwood) R9600 Software Environment: gcc-4.1 Xorg 7.0 Problem Description: more X erros and unrannable programs Steps to reproduce: 1. start gdm 2. start kde-3.5.5 3 start amarok or other multimedia program 4. wait ~2hours 5. crashed the kde-enviroment
Is there any error message left in your dmesg after crashing kde? This looks like a kde bug
I think, that is a kde bug, but under <=2.6.20.1 functionirt. dmesg is all ok,
Can you please provide more information on what stops working, and the symptoms? What are the symptoms of "KDE environment crashes"? Do applications segfault? The X server? Are there any messages in ~/.xsession-errors? As far as I understand, this is not a kernel crash, right?
There is a signal handling bug, before 2.6.21-rc6 that has caused similar KDE problems does running Linus latest tree cause this to go away? Eric
Eric W. Biederman: Oliver reports the problem not recurring after updating to 2.6.21-rc5-git7.