PROBLEM: Kernel Bug: Updated gup.c/faultin_page() makes wine crash and system unresponsive

2017-01-03 Thread Alexander Freudenberg
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Wine crash makes system unresponsive. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Since kernel patch-4.8.2-3, certain applications make the wineserver process stuck, running with full load and blocking user attempts to login. One has to send SIGKILL the wi

[Patch 4.8.2-3] Unexpected behaviour in wineserver

2016-12-20 Thread Alexander Freudenberg
Hi. Patch-4.8.2-3 introduced some unexpected behaviour when running certain, probably Delphi, applications with Wine. Using kernel 4.8.3, on one hand, the wineserver process gets stuck at full load and the application does not start. On the other hand, attempts to login are blocked during