2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel

2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel

[Martin J. Bligh]

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.

(test is just compiling 2.4.17 on the NUMA-Q).

But hey ... it makes my kernbench times super-whizzy-fast! ;-)

M.

Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel

[Andrew Morton]

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> 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.

Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel

[Martin J. Bligh]

> 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.

Works fine now.

Thanks,

M.

Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel

[Mike Houston]

> 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.

Thanks, that solved a few strange problems for me as well. Little
things I couldn't quite put my finger on at first. Little things that
didn't happen if I booted other kernels. Things like Mozilla
browsers deleting their cache on startup (like it would if the browser
didn't exit properly on last run), problems with the back and forward
history in the browsers, tar truncating files and padding with zeros,
a music player crashing because it was unable to create its playlist
database and last but not least sure enough, I couldn't compile this
kernel (good thing I always keep a few previous kernels around :-)

Mike Houston