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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl>,
	Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>,
	Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@attbi.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Subject: Re: 2.5 Kernel Problem Reports as of 27 Sep
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:17:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D950329.848C85BE@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209271833280.12092-100000@dad.molina

Thomas Molina wrote:
> 
> This report can be accessed at
> http://members.cox.net/tmolina/kernprobs/020927-status.html
> 
> The latest update can always be accessed at
> http://members.cox.net/tmolina/kernprobs/status.html
> 
> I've changed the format somewhat for posting to lkml based on feedback and
> included comments and references.  I'm also cc'ing those mentioned
> requesting feedback.  Please let me know if this works.
> 
>   Problem Title                          Status             Discussion
> 
>    1. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103166646702935&w=2
>    BUG at kernel/sched.c                  closed             15 Sep 2002
> 
>    2. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103184045102066&w=2
>                                           closed             13 Sep 2002
> 
>    3. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103220232808356&w=2
>                                           closed             18 Sep 2002
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    4. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103170969316930&w=2
>    lockups under X                        open               21 Sep 2002

That's the tasklist_lock thing.  Should be fixed now.

>    5. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103237870212293&w=2
>                                           additional reports 18 Sep 2002
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    6. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103260318814826&w=2
>    2.5.37 won't run X                     closed             23 Sep 2002
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    7. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103170969316930&w=2
>    mouse locks up X                       open               11 Sep 2002

Duplicate of 4.

>    8. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103274064128049&w=2
>                                           additional reports 23 Sep 2002

tasklist_lock again, probably.

>    9. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103170259412602&w=2
>    KVM/Mouse problem                      open               20 Sep 2002
> 
>   10. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103299680529254&w=2
>    Mouse/keyboard problems                open               27 Sep 2002
> 
> Are any of the above problems related?  At least the last one appears to
> be related to the recent input layer changes.

Yes, mice and keyboards are flakey things; it'll take some time to
get everything working right I expect.  Mine are doing weird and
faintly irritating things wrt key rollover.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   11. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103250741229189&w=2
>    AIC7XXX boot failure                   open               20 Sep 2002
> 
> This was reported by Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl>, but never
> responded to, and was never followed up. Should this be kept open?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   12. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103238248416900&w=2
>    Dead loop on virtual device lo         open               18 Sep 2002
> 
> This was reported by Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>, but
> never responded to, and was never followed up.  Should this be kept open?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   13. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103241914811779&w=2
>    nmi_watchdog problem                   open               19 Sep 2002
> 
> This was reported by Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@attbi.com>, but
> never responded to, and was never followed up.  Should this be kept open?

Ingo submitted a patch since then which fixed nmi_watchdog (although
I haven't tested it - I switched to nmi_watchdog=2 when it broke ;))

So "probably fixed"

> ...
> 
>   27. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103278825525479&w=2
>    Oops in 2.5.38-mm2                     open               23 Sep 2002
> 
> Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> says this is not an oops, it's a warning.
> Should this be kept open?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   28. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103282505101823&w=2
>    oops in vsnprintf (2.5-bk)             open               23 Sep 2002
>
>   29. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103055061028368&w=2
>    loadlin boot failure                   open               27 Sep 2002
> 
>   30. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103282695403237&w=2
>    semaphore.c calls sleeping function    open               23 Sep 2002

This one's odd, and I think Bill makes them up to taunt me.
 
>   31. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103296031616858&w=2
>    2.5.38-mm2 aha152x module fails        open               25 Sep 2002
> 
>   32. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103296919327682&w=2
>    oops with kernel LLC                   open               25 Sep 2002
> 
>   33. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103315199307542&w=2
>    loop trying to go beyond end of device open               27 Sep 2002

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-28  0:54 2.5 Kernel Problem Reports as of 27 Sep Thomas Molina
2002-09-28  1:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-28  1:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-30  0:10 Mikael Pettersson
2002-09-30 16:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-30 18:29   ` Thomas Molina

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