It hasnt sprung up since I switched to 2.6 on the guest kernel. I may give the old 2.4 kernel set a shot again at some future date, but right now I just needed to get these systems running and stable.
They've been compiling all sorts of crazy gentoo stuff for a few days without any segfaults. Thanks for all the assistance. -Jonathan S. Romero On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 20:32 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 14:38, Jonathan S. Romero wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to figure out what subsystem is causing kernel stack > > overflows. I attempted to apply the patch that baisorblade sent me, but > > I found that the current patchset I was using already had that > > particular change made. > > > > Patch sent to me by Baisorblade > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.4/2.4.27-1um/patches/ > >stack-overflow > > > > Had the change already, in one of these two > > uml-patch-2.4.24-1base.patch.bz2 > > uml-2.4.27-bs1 > > > > So the stack overflow panic is coming from somewhere else. > Can you also post the complete output and command line you used? Just to look > at it and see if it's anything known. > > What i'm going to go ahead and do is copy the guest over to an identical > > system with X Windows, so that I can pop up xterms for debugging all on > > one screen. > > > > I will look into kgdb as well, thanks for the heads up. If I debug from > > inside the guest, I will use it. > For what I know, KGDB is not supported for UML (yes, the architecture must > provide some support). And you use kgdb from another machine, connected > through a serial or ethernet connection (I'm not too sure about the 2nd > option). > > If I end up working from the outside, > > i'll just use regular GDB. > > > You are also definately right about the huge time investment, GDB > > definately is taking some getting used to. > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
