On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Gordon Russell <drgruss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All. > I have been using user mode linux since 2004, but I have decided to > update my images to fedora 15. > However I cannot get a stable uml kernel to run this image. > > For instance 2.6.39.1 crashes when I try "yum update". The errors on > the console are shown at the end of this email. > I get the same crash at the same place with 2.6.38.8. Its completely > repeatable. I tried the guest with and without swap (512mb ram). > I tried 2.6.35.4 (patched for gcc 4.6), which does not crash but > suffers from repeated "stalled cpu" problems, solved each time by > hitting a key on one of the consoles. The stalls are so bad that I > cannot shutdown the image...
Commit 482db6 (um: fix global timer issue when using CONFIG_NO_HZ) fixes the "stalled cpu" problems. Can you please try bisecting the "yum update" issue? Are you using a public fc15 image which I can test? > I am compiling on a 32 bit Fedora 15 PC, so gcc is 4.6.0. (I am > assuming uml still must be 32 bit) > I am running the uml image on a 64 bit Fedora 14 machine. > > The only unusual things in my compile that I need is static linking, > no modules, and SELinux is on. > 2.6.35.4 is very stable on my old image, but this does not use SELinux > (its fedora 2 but this is getting very old). Does it work with defaultconfig? -- Thanks, //richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
