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Subject: Re: www/chromium crashing whole system
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On 11/13/10 2:13 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>>    Isn't there also DEADLKRES that might be helpful in this case (if
>> Alex is really dealing with a livelock in the kernel)...?
>
> The deadlock resolver is compiled into the GENERIC kernel on 
> -CURRENT, so I'm assuming it hasn't helped (or perhaps is even part 
> of the problem).  I think the best thing to do at this point is to 
> try to get into DDB.  Of the schemes I suggested to work around the 
> X11 issue, switching to a virtual console before starting Chromium 
> may work best, since it will continue to use the local X server, etc.
An alternate way of handling this:
Turn on the VNC X server and use that from a remote place, leaving the 
console free.
>
> Robert
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