I rebuilt with 2.6.31.2, started from defconfig, added in a few of things I wanted, and no crash yet. Things maybe looking hopeful now! Thanks for the defconfig suggestion. I will add in a few more config things over the next few days but fingers crossed I will be fine.
Thanks Gordon. > I will let you know how I get on. > Gordon. > On 24 June 2011 18:33, richard -rw- weinberger > <richard.weinber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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
