On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, dann frazier<da...@dannf.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:36:48PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, dann frazier <da...@dannf.org> wrote: >> > After about a week of loaded uptime, penalosa returned to instability >> > over the weekend. >> > >> > It began with an Illegal instruction leading to a panic: >> > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/penalosa/penalosa.0 >> > >> > I then rebooted it, and the console was hung immediately after boot: >> > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/penalosa/penalosa.1 >> > >> > Note the rc.local segfault there. >> > >> > I rebooted it again, and it crashed after only a few minutes: >> > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/penalosa/penalosa.2 >> >> Exactly how did you install the kernel and what sources were used to build >> it? > > I used dpkg -i to install it, sources are here: > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/tmp/ > > To create an unpacked source tree, you can: > > dget > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/tmp/linux-2.6_2.6.31~rc6-1~experimental.1~snapshot.14160.dsc > cd linux-2.6-2.6.31~rc6 > ./debian/rules setup > > It is a pretty vanilla 2.6.31-rc6. > >> The trace looks familiar (crash in unwind_once), and I thought it had >> been fixed by Kyle already. I will put together a kernel for you to >> boot on penalosa. > > I don't see any obvious fixes between 2.6.31-rc6 & 2.6.31 - is the fix in > kyle's tree?
I don't know, that will be part of my analysis. >> > peri (identical hardware/kernel) has been up for about 20 days now. >> >> Please issue a sysrq-t (ctrl^c, send break, t) on peri's console and >> tell me if it crashes the kernel? > > Yes, it does. (echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger didn't though, for whatever > reason). Good, it's got the same bug then :-) Please note that fixing the kernel crash will not fix the userspace stability issues, but will prevent the kernel from crashing. Cheers, Carlos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
