Re: Kernel hang on multi-threaded X process crash

[Alan Cox]

> > Following up on myself, I replaced the contents of /usr/X11R6 server with
> > the standard 4.0.3 RPMs that come with RH 7.1 and it made no difference.
> > Also, if it's important my video card is a Voodoo 5 5500.
> 
> To follow up on my followup, I can now reproduce this 100% and get the
> "Trying to vfree()..." message on the console. To do this I start Mozilla,
> switch to a text console, and do a "killall -QUIT mozilla". A couple of
> "Trying to vfree()..." messages later, it's big red switch time.
> 
> I'm going to try this with standard 2.4.3 as well as the 2.4.2 that comes
> with RH71 - hopefully my filesystem will handle all the fscks :-(

Do you have DRI enabled and if so does disabling DRI help ?