From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755927AbYEPINn (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 04:13:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751308AbYEPIN0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 04:13:26 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.236]:60668 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755336AbYEPINX (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 04:13:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Dj8GFEdLVT9ilwwWTuH+5sbPgTtdNDlv/8/p0FVauPhIii9LkAAoQ+38LyU7pH7nS1nC9Iy6t3apqshspyDLjSZ3CMIq3TXHXYEWk4wGyPkqhgyaCwdRskZ+CIp1NHNMSNO7TPf6seb2m0rGBmgYWa3XzIBhs5/aTE2yVIwqago= Message-ID: <19f34abd0805160113i17eea98aub287f2d1be8f05d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:22 +0200 From: "Vegard Nossum" To: "Mariusz Kozlowski" Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots and hangs on x86_64 Cc: "Stephen Rothwell" , "Adrian Bunk" , kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <200805160737.50373.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200805152201.49154.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <20080516140625.25fac6a2.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <200805160717.31618.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <200805160737.50373.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Hello, > >> > > > ~/linux/linux-next $ git bisect start >> > > > fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref >> > > > Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref >> > >> > This would indicate something wrong with your clone of linux-next. How >> > did you create the repository? >> > >> > > > - how does one bisect on linux-next? >> > >> > Any day's linux-next tree is a git tree like any other ... >> >> Hm it can be that I did something wrong ... > > and I did :/ I think I just started this repo in wrong way - according to linux-next FAQ. > I'll just start from scratch then. You need to be on a branch. If git-branch says this: $ git branch * (no branch) then git will not allow you to bisect: $ git bisect start v2.6.24 v2.6.25 fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref Try first checkout out a new branch: $ git checkout -b bisect Switched to a new branch "bisect" $ git bisect start v2.6.24 v2.6.25 Switched to branch "master" Good luck! Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036