From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753922AbbHRSko (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:40:44 -0400 Received: from smtp2.it.da.ut.ee ([193.40.5.67]:59294 "EHLO smtp2.it.da.ut.ee" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751206AbbHRSkn (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:40:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:41:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Meelis Roos To: Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: 4.2.0-rc6+: Boot crash on IBM X346 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LRH 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > IBM Xseries 346, 2x Xeon 3.2 HT 64-bit (4 threads total, P4 era Xeon), > > 5G RAM. All kernels so far worked fine, last working one was > > 4.2.0-rc2-00077-gf760b87. First kernel tested after that was > > v4.2-rc6-20-g7a834ba and that one crashes on boot. > > Same crash happens in 4.2.0-rc7. [...] > Will try to bisect, slowly as I have no remote management on that > server. Good news - the problem was local, some file was corrupted after a power failure and it persisted over compilations (kallsyms finding no symbols). bisect pointed me to the start and even recompiled known good version was broken, so I tried make mrproper and it cured the problem. -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)