Message-ID: <20030929164242.5518.qmail@web40906.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Mr. Morton,

--- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am experiencing defunct event/0 kernel daemons under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
> >  with synaptics_drv 0.11.7, Dmitry Torokhov's gpm-1.20 with synaptics
> >  support, and XFree86 4.3.0-10. Moving the touchpad in either X or with
> >  gpm causes defunct event/0 processes to be created. 
> 
> Defunct is odd.  Have you run `dmesg' to see if the kernel oopsed?

That was one of the first things I checked. There were no Oopses and nothing
else seemed to suffer, i.e. no high CPU usage or other nasty dmesg messages.

> 
> You could try reverting synaptics-reconnect.patch, and then serio-reconnect.patch
> from
> 
>
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test6/2.6.0-test6-mm1/broken-out
> 

OK. I will report back once I have rebooted.

Brad


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Brad Chapman

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