Re: port-i386/38989: crash switching from text to graphics console

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/38989; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/38989: crash switching from text to graphics console
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:01:17 +0200

 On Mon, 01 Sep 2008, David Holland wrote:
 > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:25:00PM +0000, apb%cequrux.com@localhost wrote:
 >  >         If the problem is memory allocation, then a possible fix could
 >  >         be to free some memory and try again instead of crashing.
 > 
 > Is this a symptom of the same problem that makes the X server break
 > with jemalloc?
 
 It seems unlikely; this crash is in the kernel, while jemalloc is in
 userland.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)