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SubjectRe: OOM changes in Linux 3.7 lead to udev warnings and total breakage of KDE 3.5.10/TDE
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> If I remember correctly kernel developers promised not to break user APIs in the Linux kernel
> however in Linux 3.7 a /proc/<PID>/oom_adj file has been totally removed which makes KDE 3.5.x
> (and I suppose TDE) unusable as they depend on this file and simply refuse to start in its absence.
>

This is
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/unassigned-bugs/2010-December/016850.html
from almost two years ago. The tunable had been on the feature removal
schedule for two years and would have emitted a warning if you had run on
any kernel during that time. KDE 4.6.1 and later from two years ago work
fine.

> Also, udev in CentOS/RHEL/Scientific and other old Linux'es depend on this file (which is not critical
> but not pleasant anyway).
>

Fixed in udev v162 at the same time kde was.


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