[uml-devel] poll: uml bug management - was: Re: [uml-user] 2.6.6 Kernel mconsole & mem

["roland" <for_spam@gmx.de>]

have seen the same problem with a uml 2.6.6 guest compiled and running on a suse 9.1 host.
(mkstemp failed and left processes after shutdown)

what`s your host OS ? 
what`s your guest rootfs?
do you use skas or tt ?

btw: should we file a bug-report at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=429&atid=100429
or shouldn`t that bugtracker not being used anymore - in general ?
if not, IMHO that bugtracker should be marked "obsolete"(like the SF cvs repository) - otherwise
newbies will file reports there and get pissed , because nobody cares about.
on that page there still are bugs "open" for years now - and nobody knows, if they still exist, or 
not.

i think it`s very difficult, to track bugs on the mailinglist, only.
we know, that jeff is collecting the bug reports:
>The bug tracker is the UML mailing lists.  I stick bug reports and patches in 
>a todo folder and delete them from there when I fix (or merge) them.  I pay
>almost no attention to the SF patch and bug report thingies.  So if you want
>your bug to get attention, send it to one of the lists.

imho, if uml users/developers probably hit a bug, they should be able to browse the list of 
known uml bugs and add comments. this adds transparency and encourages people to try to reproduce. 
furthermore, this could encourage people to "debug" some uml code, because they see: ohhh 
- that bug has priority 9 for 6 months now - let`s have a look....i`m soo geeky - probably 
i get this fixed :)
currently, there isn`t much transparency - users need to dig into the whole "noise" of the 
mailinglist - and if a bug is reported on the mailinglist a while ago, jeff is the only person 
to know, that this bug exists and still needs to be fixed.

i would like to give an example for a really nice "bug page":
http://rockbox.haxx.se/bugs.shtml

that page is created by a script, which extracts the information from SF and puts it into a 
nicely formatted page:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/rockbox/www/getbugs.pl

why not using it, too ?
i vote for it!
:)
comments ?

regards
roland

ps:
since such bug page needs maintenance - i offer doing that job (as good as i can).




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Olliver" <mpo@thermeoneurope.com>
To: <user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:12 PM
Subject: [uml-user] 2.6.6 Kernel mconsole & mem


> Hi
> 
> I am using a host and guest 2.6.6 kernel with uml and skas patches 
> applied. I can get a uml instance to startup ok and can talk to it via 
> the network.
> 
> However, I can not communicate with it via mconsole, when it boots it 
> gives me the error:
>     make_umid - mkstemp failed, errno = 2
> 
> also when I shut the uml instance down with a shutdown -h 0 is shuts 
> down the instance but leaves a few processes running on the host system.
> 
> I have been starting the instances using
> ./linux umid=uml127 ubd0=root_fs_cp127 udb1=swapfile-uml127 
> eth0=tuntap,,,192.168.xxx.250
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions of where I may have gone wrong are welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
> -- 
> Mark Olliver
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