Re: odd phenomenon.

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:48:09 -0800


On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:38:16AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> Something strange I've noticed on all recent 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.
> If I start galeon whilst I've got a bk pull in operation, the
> galeon process starts, opens its window, and then dies instantly.
> Starting it a second time works.
> Its not OOM, as theres plenty of free RAM, and half gig of free (unused) swap.
> It's almost 100% reproducable here. Only seen it do it on this box
> though which is a P4 with HT, so it could be SMP related..
> Ideas ?
> Dave

(1) strace?
(2) kgdb breakpoint on exit(), conditional on current->comm?
(3) exit code?

Thanks,
Bill
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