Re: [AD] Strange crash with recent WIP

[Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010625213346.8261A-100000@xxxxxxxxxx>, Grzegorz
Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
>I tried returning back in time with cvs to "10 days ago" (this cvs thing
>is really wonderful), which is "Sticky Date: 2001.06.15.21.42.28", and
>everything works correctly, both under fb and X. Since the only recent
>changes were made to the unicode API and the dynamic modules system, I
>think the latter is the culprit, especially since X works correctly under
>every situation with the latest WIP, but it may be another thing, of
>course.

The unicode.c file is mentioned at several places in the backtrace. It's
possible that the crash occurs in there somewhere.

>Any suggestions on what should I do next to find where's the problem?

Eric and Peter posted their respective patches to this list; using your
CVS version from a few days ago, manually apply one set of patches and
see if it causes the problem. Then you can examine that patch to see
what is causing the problem.

>PD: While testing I "lost" two consoles (tty2 and 3). They don't answer
>even to alt+sys+r/k. Relaunching getty manually doesn't help either, they
>simply don't work. Does somebody know how to regain its control?

Erm... reboot? :-)

Bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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