Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756144AbYCZWLc (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:11:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752954AbYCZWLY (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:11:24 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:41429 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752629AbYCZWLX (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:11:23 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "Ray Lee" Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc6-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:11:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: LKML , "Adrian Bunk" , "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Natalie Protasevich" References: <200803220259.48534.rjw@sisk.pl> <2c0942db0803260930y741dfe81r114bd18b35e0bbe5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0803260930y741dfe81r114bd18b35e0bbe5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803262311.15024.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2054 Lines: 41 On Wednesday, 26 of March 2008, Ray Lee wrote: > 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]" Okay, I closed the bug (resolution WILL_NOT_FIX). Thanks, Rafael -- 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/