2.6.9-rc4 stability issues

2.6.9-rc4 stability issues

[mike lewis]

Hi All,

I wouldn't consider my self a complete newb, but you may, so feel free
to direct me to the newb list if this is where it should be.

I've recently come across (saved and purchased) a dvb card which is
only supported by cvs linux-dvb of a few days ago, which in turn
willonly compile on 2.6.9-rc4.  So I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.9-rc4 a
week ago, and now I have stability issues and I'm not sure where to
turn.  I looked through the changelog from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 and say a
lot a ACPI changes, so I turned acpi off in my kernel to see if this
was the source.. It is not..

The device is remote, so I can only ssh / telnet in to debug.  I'm
wondering what steps I can take to establish why this particular
flavour of kernel is not happy on my system.   One issue I have, is
how to establish the cause of the system freezes?  I'm assuming a
segfault of some kind or another would be logged somewhere, but they
do not appear in /var/log/messages..

Is there any way to log the segfault cause to post/investigate?

Mick

Re: 2.6.9-rc4 stability issues

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 11:30, mike lewis wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I wouldn't consider my self a complete newb, but you may, so feel free
> to direct me to the newb list if this is where it should be.
> 
> I've recently come across (saved and purchased) a dvb card which is
> only supported by cvs linux-dvb of a few days ago, which in turn
> willonly compile on 2.6.9-rc4.  So I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.9-rc4 a
> week ago, and now I have stability issues and I'm not sure where to
> turn.  I looked through the changelog from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 and say a
> lot a ACPI changes, so I turned acpi off in my kernel to see if this
> was the source.. It is not..
> 
> The device is remote, so I can only ssh / telnet in to debug.  I'm
> wondering what steps I can take to establish why this particular
> flavour of kernel is not happy on my system.   One issue I have, is
> how to establish the cause of the system freezes?  I'm assuming a
> segfault of some kind or another would be logged somewhere, but they
> do not appear in /var/log/messages..
> 
> Is there any way to log the segfault cause to post/investigate?

Start with describing your problem in detail.
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