From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266316AbUHaC5K (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:57:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266333AbUHaC5K (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:57:10 -0400 Received: from cathy.bmts.com ([216.183.128.202]:52370 "EHLO cathy.bmts.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266316AbUHaC5G (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:57:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:56:38 -0400 From: Mike Houston To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 can't compile a kernel Message-Id: <20040830225638.02cd479c.mikeserv@bmts.com> In-Reply-To: <20040829202106.181784a3.akpm@osdl.org> References: <114120000.1093830897@[10.10.2.4]> <20040829202106.181784a3.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bmts-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-bmts-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-MailScanner-From: mikeserv@bmts.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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