WaitForSomething(): select: Invalid argument

[Grant]

>> >>  WaitForSomething(): select: Invalid argument
>> >
>> >
>> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/31/1 ?
>>
>> Thanks, Google didn't bring that up for me.  So it's a kernel issue.
>> I'm on 3.9-rc7.  I'll pursue this further with the kernel guys if it
>> happens on 3.9-rc8.  I've only seen it once so far.
>
> That is wrong, the patch mentioned in that mail thread was applied long
> time ago, in v3.6[1].
>
> And the issue is most definitely in X:
>
> ---
> Also, letting the X people know that they are doing something crazy
> sounds like a good idea. -- Linus
> ---
>
> This happens on my Arch Linux 3.8.11 and I've seen it happen also on
> 3.9.
>
> X crashing is not good.

Agreed.  What should we do?

- Grant


> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cee58483cf56e0ba355fdd97ff5e8925329aa936