From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262747AbVFWTiN (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:38:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262745AbVFWTdJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:33:09 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:16138 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262705AbVFWTaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:30:25 -0400 Message-ID: <42BB0DBE.3070003@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:30:06 +0100 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050416) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guillaume Thouvenin Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 oops on startup. References: <42B46C18.2030101@superbug.demon.co.uk> <20050621235144.15fc55c6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050621235144.15fc55c6.akpm@osdl.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >>I have used the kernel.org normal kernel, and it compiles and boots fine. >> I then use exactly the same .config file for the 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 and it >> fails to boot. > > > It's due to the fork notifier code. Set CONFIG_FORK_CONNECTOR=n and you > should be OK. > 2.6.12-mm1 fails just like previous versions. Setting "CONFIG_FORK_CONNECTOR=n" permitted me to boot the kernel, thank you. James