Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934133AbZGQG2B (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:28:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934121AbZGQG2A (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:28:00 -0400 Received: from e23smtp08.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.141]:35269 "EHLO e23smtp08.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934107AbZGQG2A (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:28:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:57:47 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PTY bug in 2.6.31-rc3? Message-ID: <20090717062747.GA18331@skywalker> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 22 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:22:01PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Hey Alan, > > I'm running 2.6.31-rc3, and twice now over about 36 hours all > pseudo-tty's have stopped working on my system. Everything else works; > I can fire up gui applications, but starting any new programs that use > pty's will hang. The only fix seems to be to reboot the system. > > I think I remember seeing a similar report, but I thought you said it > had been fixed in -rc3 --- does this ring a bell? > One problem is already fixed upstream. I have reported that here http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/865691. I still have another bug which i explained in the last email of the above thread -aneesh -- 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/