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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: kdm serious bug] (fwd)
From:       Lotzi Boloni <boloni () cs ! purdue ! edu>
Date:       1999-02-01 12:01:20
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>According to Carsten Pfeiffer:
>> I heard about such problems when some applications didn't terminate
>> properly. When not using kdm, you had to press Ctrl-C after shutting down
>> KDE, but with kdm, that's not possible and caused the hanging.
>> So it might be interesting to know what programs were running and what
>> program doesn't terminate.
>
>Well, I tried to run KDE just by calling startx. KDE loaded ok. THen, I shut
>it down. No ctrl-c needed. `ps ax' showed no KDE or X processes running (so,
>it killed all processes cleanly).
>Tried to do the same thing running kdm. Logged in, and then just shut down. It
>hangs!
>Maybe (look, I'm not a programmer, it's just a guess) it's something with the
>code itself, because even if it was 'waiting for a ctrl-c', and the machine
>didn't respond to the user, it should at least respond to pings, since it's
>the kernel itself who responds. Is it possible?

  I can confirm this bug. On my home machine kdm completely
hangs up the system on every logout (you can log in once
and work ok, but when you log out, it hangs). Long list of
disk errors after reset, which may indicate that not only
the input was blocked, but effectively the kernel was shut
down in the middle of a write, or something.

  This happened on a clear RedHat 5.2 installation. However
the same thing works on my office machine, which was
installed from the same RedHat CD. 

  The only difference I can think of is the hardware
(radically different) and maybe a different version of
egcs. The rest of kde works ok on both machines. 

            Lotzi

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