Le mercredi 01 novembre 2006 12:02, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit : > Hi Jerome
Hello, Sorry for the late reply, I've been away for few days. > First, thank you for spending time working on the crash at VT switch on > AMD64: fixing this bug is really important for the g-i project. You're welcome. I'm pleased if I can help. > I've just cloned your original BR as bug 396520 [1] to separate from the > french keyboard issue, retitled it, assigned to the directfb package and > merged with one by davide. Thanks. > I've cc'ed d-boot this time, but feel free to drop them in future replies. ... > While an application is running, please switch to vt1 (ctrl-alt-f1) and > then back to vt7 to see if you can crash your AMD64 system with a pure > DirectFB (no gtk) application. What kind of crash are you expecting? Are you expecting the whole system to be down? > In the case you should succeed in crashing the application and the > console should become unresonding, you can connect from ssh and issue a > "chvt 7" to get back to X. I ran a lot of them and I could switch back and forth from vt1 to vt7. Nothing crashed at all. BTW, Looking at the strace output, the problem could come from signal usage, like you said. I hope this helps. Regards, -- Jérôme Marant