On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 12:21, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 12:16 pm, Jim C wrote: > > >>No. The problem has not been fixed. I keep emailing mandrake about the > > >>problem, but they don't seem to care. I think they need to pull some new > > >>XFS patches from the SGI guys and see if that works. The SGI kernel > > >>doesn't have this problem. Nor does any of the 9.0 kernels that mandrake > > >>has produced. Also, the cooker kernels seem to have the same problem. > > > > > >Thanks a lot for the additional info! It probably wouldn't have dawned on > > > my that the only system I've built with mdk 9.1 on which the debugger > > > works is the one that uses ext3. The other 3 use xfs! > > > > Why not simply get a GNU or Redhat kernel? > > Why not just buy a RedHat or Suse distribution?
It would seem from the thread that the problem is xfs ... MDK didn't write xfs so that if there is a problem with it the fix has to come from the originators of xfs. If it does work on ext3 (and unknown on reiserfs) I'd switch to one of those. The other possibility is changing the xfs modules in the kernel, if a usable fix came out post release. (I've seen a number of updates on various programs / patches that are at best cute and rarely compilable.) The other thing I haven't seen is any mention of which kernel. There are two alternative kernels, these being the update kernel 2.4.21-18 and 2.4.21-16mm. Do these have the same problem? Arguing kernels when the problem is xfs seems hardly productive. But that's just me. James
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