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

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/38989: crash switching from text to graphics console
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:52:52 +0000

 On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Alan Barrett 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.
 
 er, duh. never mind, nothing to see here...
 
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