Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:26:05AM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> >
> >  
> >>This is what I've got so far on the first boot, I shall have to check the
> >>manpage for git-bisect again to see if there is anything else to be added,
> >>nothing enlightening seen so far - further reboots to be done.
> >>    
> >
> >I'm a little confused at what I am seeing below.
> >Normally what happens is that after a kernel compile and test.  You call
> >"git-bisect bad" or "git-bisect good" and then git-bisect picks the next
> >kernel to test.  Then you compile and test that one.  It looks like
> >you called git-bisect bad several times in a row without testing....
> >
> >
> >Eric
> >
> >  
> This is the procedure I followed.
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> # install git and cogito on your computer
> 
> # clone Linus' tree:
> cg-clone  
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> # start bisecting:
> cd linux-2.6
> git bisect start
> git bisect bad 86a71dbd3e81e8870d0f0e56b87875f57e58222b
> git bisect good ac98695d6c1508b724f246f38ce57fb4e3cec356
> 
> # start round
> cp /path/to/.config .
> make oldconfig
> make
> # install kernel, check whether it's good or bad, then:
> git bisect [bad|good]
> ========================================================
> I built and installed the kernel downloaded using "cg-clone", booted it 
> up  and ran "git bisect bad".  I'm also somewhat confused as the first 
> failing kernel is 2.6.20-git11, the Makefile says the kernel got with 
> cg-clone is actually 2.6.21-rc4 and it built as  2.6.20-g208367ee.
> Regards
> Sid.
> 
> >>barrabas:/usr/src/GIT/linux-2.6 # git bisect bad
> >>Bisecting: 22 revisions left to test after this
> >>[3fc605a2aa38899c12180ca311f1eeb61a6d867e] knfsd: allow the server to 
> >>provide a
> >>gid list when using AUTH_UNIX authentication
> >>rrabas:/usr/src/GIT/linux-2.6 # git bisect bad
>...

I think I got your problem:

After rebooting, you do "git bisect [bad|good]"  *once*.

Then recompile the kernel from the current tree, reboot, and again
*once* "git bisect [bad|good]".

etc.

cu
Adrian

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