Bug 172278

Summary:	kdeinit startup stalls on linux with kernels without oom_adj
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Geller, Sandor <sandor.geller>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	faure
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	proposed patch to fix the problem a somewhat better patch which calls lstat only once

Description Geller, Sandor 2008-10-06 14:56:56 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.10)
Compiler:          gcc 3.4.6 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

kinit/start_kdeinit of kdelibs 3.5.10 doesn't work correctly when the kernel doesn't support oom_adj. The kdeinit processes are stuck in read() while the last process of the chain waits for SIGUSR1 which never happens.

Comment 1 Geller, Sandor 2008-10-06 15:16:48 UTC

Created attachment 27716 [details]
proposed patch to fix the problem

Comment 2 Geller, Sandor 2008-10-06 18:17:17 UTC

Created attachment 27720 [details]
a somewhat better patch which calls lstat only once

Comment 3 David Faure 2009-09-18 02:44:05 UTC

Lubos, seems to be your code, can you have a look at the patch?

Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2009-09-30 14:44:31 UTC

This has been already fixed with r859452 in a different way.