From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266344AbUH3DW4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:22:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266357AbUH3DW4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:22:56 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:48541 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266344AbUH3DWz (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:22:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:21:06 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel Message-Id: <20040829202106.181784a3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <114120000.1093830897@[10.10.2.4]> References: <114120000.1093830897@[10.10.2.4]> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > Seems to crap out with file corruption partway through, saying things > like: > > ld -m elf_i386 -r -o utilities.o utalloc.o utcopy.o utdebug.o utdelete.o uteval.o utglobal.o utinit.o utmath.o utmisc.o utobject.o utxface.o > uteval.o: file not recognized: File truncated > > 2.6.9-rc1 seems to work fine. You got any likely candidates to try backing > out / trying separately? Else I guess I'll try linus.patch. Yes, rc1-mm1 does everything right apart from reading data from files. Reverting ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one-cleanup.patch then ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one.patch will help.