Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:09:10 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
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* 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?
> 
> You could try reverting synaptics-reconnect.patch, and then serio-reconnect.patch from

Andrew, I wonder if this isn't caused by the call_usermodehelper patch.
Looks like you were right ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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