From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39BFEFAA.993C37D3@wanadoo.fr> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:20:42 +0200 From: Martin Costabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mlan@cpu.lu CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk References: <200009132025.WAA00853@piglet.grunz.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michel Lanners wrote: > > On 13 Sep, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > > That's not the first time I notice this strange behaviour. I meant, this > Same for me, except that for a few weeks now I'm basically stuck in a > non-booting mood. One out of roughly 20 tries boots indeed; all the > other stop in various places in init/main.c. Not even going into xmon... > > Since it doesn't seem to be a reproducible crash in one specific place, > its rather hard to isolate the problem. I feel like chasing ghosts... > Anybody got Ghostbusters' phone? Actually, it (latest bk-2.4.0-test) is now pretty stable again on my old 6400(*). The only problems are those that seem to plague everybody: I had to apply Al Viro's remaining fix for fs/buffers.c:block_truncate_page() ("kernel BUG at ll_rw_blk.c:711"), otherwise I was dropped into xmon all the time. Linus seems to hide under a ton of brown paper bags. There are now processes that don't listen to SIGHUP or to Ctrl-C (bk sccstool, for example) and get transformed into zombies. (*) I'll check your valkyriefb patch as soon as I can find it, so it might not remain as stable :-) -- Martin ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/