Fatal server crash:

Thomas Hellström unichrome at shipmail.org
Wed Dec 29 08:03:58 PST 2004


Hi!

Felix Kühling wrote:

>Am Mi, den 29.12.2004 schrieb Thomas Hellström um 15:52:
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>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I get a fatal server crash when using a 6.8.2 prerelease from mandrake 
>>cooker together with a recent version of Mozilla. I've also seen this 
>>crash with earlier versions of  Xorg.  Log attached. It apparently all 
>>boils down to:
>>
>>
>>Fatal server error:
>>WaitForSomething(): select: errno=22
>>
>>
>>Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>>         at http://wiki.X.Org
>> for help.
>>
>>Any hints on what this can be?
>>    
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>
>We used to get these in conjunction with a broken DRM. It had something
>to do with how the poll system call is handled by the DRM device IIRC.
>AFAIK the change that broke it was reverted later. Try again with a more
>recent DRM.
>
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>>/Thomas
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I have been using bleeding edge DRM for quite some time, so if that's
the issue, it's probably not fixed.
The error above was in fact with yesterday's checkout of drm (linux-core.)

Seems like this happens when Mozilla crashes. (Sometimes it does without 
bringing
the X server down with it.)

/Thomas

>Regards,
>  Felix
>
>  
>

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