From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266467AbUG0RMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:12:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266466AbUG0RMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:12:05 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:15233 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266472AbUG0RLP (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:11:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:51:18 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crashes Message-Id: <20040727095118.7620f801.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200407271302.41321.gene.heskett@verizon.net> References: <200407271233.04205.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040727142918.GE12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200407271302.41321.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:02:41 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: | On Tuesday 27 July 2004 10:29, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk | wrote: | >On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:33:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: | >> Greetings everybody; | >> | >> I have now had 4 crashes while running 2.6.8-rc2, the last one | >> requiring a full powerdown before the intel-8x0 could | >> re-establish control over the sound. | >> | >> All have had an initial Opps located in prune_dcache, and were | >> logged as follows: | >> Jul 27 07:58:58 coyote kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL | >> pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 | > | >... which means that dentry_unused list got corrupted, which doesn't | > really help. Could you try to narrow it down to 2.6.8-rc1-bk? | | I don't have bitkeeper installed. I get my patches from kernel.org, | either from the main Linus tree, or Andrews akpm tree. Is there | someplace where I can dl a patchkit that leads up to rc1 by the | "daily" snapshot? Or should I just get the 'broken out' patch after | I verify that it also occurs with rc1 of course. That I haven't | done, mainly because rc2 has a lot of usb bugfixes and my mouse | hasn't died all by itself on rc2 like it was for at least 2 dozen | patches before rc2. IIRC it did a time or 2 on rc1. In case you need daily bk snapshots, they are here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/ | It takes a < 1 day for this to occur usually, but seems to occur after | a long session of doing something else that fails. (or maybe causes | the fail, of a make install in konstruct/meta/kde) Thats running | now, someplace in kdegraphics-3.2.92 from the looks of it. | | I'l go see if I can get the patch in broken out form. | | Mmmm, no, I guess I won't. I've just upgraded this machine to FC2, | and gftp is one of the many things broken by this, an strace exit of | trying to run gftp, most recent release: | | writev(2, [{"/usr/bin/gftp-gtk", 17}, {": ", 2}, {"error while loading | shared libra"..., 36}, {": ", 2}, {"/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0", | 29}, {": ", 2}, {"undefined symbol: pango_fc_font_"..., 44}, {"", 0}, | {"", 0}, {"\n", 1}], 10/usr/bin/gftp-gtk: error while loading shared | libraries: /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: | pango_fc_font_map_get_type | ) = 133 | exit_group(127) | | And libpangoxft is this: | [root@coyote root]# locate libpangoxft-1.0.so | /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0.399.1 | /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so | /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 | | with the latter 2 links to the first one. | | So I'd love to find this and fix it. FC2 broke way more than it fixed | on this machine. And yum update did run just fine once I got some | similar problems with libxml2 sorted. Sorry. Hints on this also | gratefully accepted of course. | | In the meantime I'll cp my .config back to rc1 and see it it happens | with rc1. -- ~Randy