From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762709AbXGLXgd (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:36:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758785AbXGLXg1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:36:27 -0400 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:44817 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755631AbXGLXg0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:36:26 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 97642 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:36:26 EDT Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:37:19 -0500 From: Nathan Lynch To: Christian Kujau Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Weird oopses with 2.6.22-rc7 Message-ID: <20070712233719.GK17955@localdomain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello- Christian Kujau wrote: > Hi there, > > Since a few days I'm experiencing weird oopses on my iBook/G4 with > ubuntu's 2.6.22-7-powerpc and also with a vanilla 2.6.22-rc7-git8. > > Now for the "weird" part: The oops happens when doing "make install" for > a piece of software (xine-ui media player) as *root*. No kidding, it > does NOT happen when I compile the software and do "make install" as a > normal user. This is 100% reproducible, here're some technical infos > before I go on describing whe I did: > > http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.22-rc7-git8/ Here's the first oops from the "dmesg" file: Unrecoverable FP Unavailable Exception 801 at efff20b0 Oops: Unrecoverable FP Unavailable Exception, sig: 6 [#1] PREEMPT PowerMac Modules linked in: NIP: efff20b0 LR: c008dff4 CTR: efff20b0 REGS: ef7cbd90 TRAP: 0801 Not tainted t8) MSR: 00009032 CR: 28028428 XER: 00000000 TASK = cfd9b800[1625] 'touch' THREAD: ef7ca000 GPR00: efff20b0 ef7cbe40 cfd9b800 ec049240 00000002 ef7cbea0 00000000 0ff29604 GPR08: 00000001 eff78d00 ef7ca000 00000000 28022422 NIP [efff20b0] 0xefff20b0 LR [c008dff4] permission+0x78/0x170 Call Trace: [ef7cbe40] [00010942] 0x10942 (unreliable) [ef7cbe60] [c00ac440] do_utimes+0x1cc/0x1f4 [ef7cbf10] [c00ac630] sys_utimensat+0xac/0x138 [ef7cbf40] [c00118ec] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 > Any ideas which magic syscall could cause these oopses? Have you tried 2.6.22? Linus committed a utimensat-related oops fix right before releasing it: http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1e5de2837c166535f9bb4232bfe97ea1f9fc7a1c