Re: kern/53072: netbsd-8 regression: startx (nv driver) crashes system

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/53072; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/53072: netbsd-8 regression: startx (nv driver) crashes system
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:32:51 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:33 PM Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:06 PM matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
 > > Benny, this might fix your new problem too.  can you also
 > > test it?
 
 > I downloaded a NetBSD-8 GENERIC kernel built on March 11, so that should
 > include the pulled-up patch. I still get runaway memory allocation on
 login
 > (from the login process). Because of that, I could not test whether startx
 > succeeds.
 
 I managed to gdb into the login process, and it was stuck below
 __getlastlogx50. Removing /var/log/lastlogx fixed this problem!
 
 Now I could actually run startx, which was crashing before on this
 installation. It is now working perfectly. Thanks for fixing the problem.
 
 -- 
 Benny