Other 2.4.4 stuff (was Re: [plug] Kernel 2.4.4 and accessing *some* SSL web sites.)

[Carl Gherardi]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Christian wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:31:17AM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
>
> > I have exactly this with 2.4.4, on two quite different machines (PIII
> > with Matrox G400, and Celeron with i740). They didn't run 2.4.3, they
> > both went from 2.2.something to 2.4.4.
> >
> > > Another problem is when I select the reboot or shutdown options from the
> > > GDM menu, the gdm program itself dies but X doesn't and I'm just left
> > > with that default X11 grey screen.  The system doesn't half or reboot at
> > > all and I have to log in manually and do this.  If I reboot with 2.4.3
> > > then it works as normal.
> >
> > kdm on one machine and gdm on the other don't show this behaviour.
>
> Weird... this is actually 100% reproducible while the other problem
> with the screen saver only happens occasionally (although it *has*
> happened on two totally different machines for me too).
>
>
Have a look at this (its a couple of weeks old now)

http://lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3

I also had some wierd and wonderful issues when i compiled that kernel.

The "run children first" patch for fork() created a few issues.

Carl