From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ernst Persson To: Michel =?utf-8?q?D=C3=A4nzer?= Subject: Re: Random segfaults with 2.6 Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:16:19 +0200 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org References: <200309061611.03915.ernstp@mac.com> <1062860844.5572.24.camel@thor.holligenstrasse29.lan> In-Reply-To: <1062860844.5572.24.camel@thor.holligenstrasse29.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200309061716.19542.ernstp@mac.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: lördagen den 6 september 2003 17.07 skrev Michel Dänzer: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:11, Ernst Persson wrote: > > I'm running the latest linuxppc-2.5-benh and I'm getting a lot of random > > segfaults, specially in development tools. > > Emergeing in gentoo works half the time. Gcc and configure crashes, and > > this never happens with 2.4.*. > > Is CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled? I used to get random segfaults and other > weird behaviour after a couple of hours of uptime (running linuxppc-2.5 > from August 26th), and it all seems to be gone with preempt disabled. :\ Should have added that: yes it is. And I know, I used to get crashes with it too (1-2 months ago), but then they seemed to disappear and preempt was really stable. Maybe they are back? :-) > > Linux zapp.no-ip.com 2.6.0-test4 #5 lör sep 6 12:40:19 CEST 2003 ppc > > 740/750 GNU/Linux > > Module Size Used by > > dmasound_pmac 85464 2 [unsafe] > > dmasound_core 20460 3 dmasound_pmac > > soundcore 9344 3 dmasound_core > > i2c_core 25060 1 dmasound_pmac > > I thought dmasound wasn't working in 2.6? :) http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc-2.5-benh/search/?expr=dmasound&search=ChangeSet+comments ! ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/