Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759789AbYCZQai (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:30:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756889AbYCZQaW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:30:22 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:45953 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756481AbYCZQaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:30:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=dVfxNkKYDST0oQ2StDkVnkuIcfZxMa38XVWsONqXXSpfLDD1QLZV9bS5cl5R7FyDO/mYh/6u0cakVZDtAi0lH9c0NxTpqk33DJKq5ehnRpGgFG7s9yh9G1hLNB/2E89G05NWcc+6YonjR1PusTUT23H/RH6TIRgPVU/iew9acbY= Message-ID: <2c0942db0803260930y741dfe81r114bd18b35e0bbe5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:14 -0700 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 Cc: LKML , "Adrian Bunk" , "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Natalie Protasevich" In-Reply-To: <200803220259.48534.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200803220259.48534.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0af7c0e65f5aa038 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1880 Lines: 35 2008/3/21 Rafael J. Wysocki : > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.24 reported since > 2.6.25-rc1 was released, for which there are no fixes in the mainline I know > of. If any of them have been fixed already, please let me know. [...] > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10041 > Subject : 2.6.25-rc1/2 regression: first-time login into gnome fails > Submitter : Romano Giannetti > Date : 2008-02-18 11:56 (33 days old) > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/145 > Handled-By : Ray Lee This appears to be a race in user space that people have been hitting for some time, but has gotten more likely with the latest kernel. It matches the behavior of a gnome dbus bug [ http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395488 ]. The way to avoid that bug is to install the dbus-x11 package which forces dbus to start up earlier, avoiding the race. Though the original reporter hasn't replied, Christoph Hellwig hit the same issue and was able to confirm that installing the dbus-x11 package avoids the issue, papering over bug, wherever it may lie. Regardless, there are reports of this issue that go back before 2.6.25, so I don't think this is a regression, just a timing issue that's a lot easier to hit with the latest kernel. This is one of those things that'd be nice to have in a Known Issues document in the kernel release. "Debian and derivative distributions may need to install dbus-x11 package to avoid a known userspace issue in the dbus package. [gnome bug 395488]" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/