From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:18:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:18:55 -0500 Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU ([18.7.21.83]:46752 "EHLO pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:18:54 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linus BK tree crashes with PANIC: INIT: segmentation violation References: From: Derek Atkins Date: 11 Jan 2003 23:27:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > Oh, well. Can you verify whether this fixes it for you? And thanks for > hunting down the exact changeset. Thanks. This patch does indeed fix it for me. And you're welcome -- I learned a lot about bitkeeper in the process of tracking this down. FTR, BK *DID* make it a lot easier to visualize the graph so I could walk backwards and track it down. > Btw, what version of "init" are you running? It would be interesting to > see what it actually does, and obviously none of the machines I have > around have that init.. Red Hat's SysVinit-2.84-2. > Linus -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available