Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

[Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:42:58PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:32:36 +0000 Sid Boyce wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> ...
>>>       
>> There's not a lot of docs out there.
>>
>> The man-page:  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html
>>
>> Linus's email doc:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
>>
>> I worked on something over last weekend, but it doesn't really add
>> much to the references above.
>> ...
>>     
>
>
> FWIW:
> My standard instructions for users who are asked to bisect are [1]:
>
>
> <--  snip  -->
>
> # install git and cogito on your computer
>
> # clone Linus' tree:
> cg-clone \ 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>
> # start bisecting:
> cd linux-2.6
> git bisect start
> git bisect bad 86a71dbd3e81e8870d0f0e56b87875f57e58222b
> git bisect good ac98695d6c1508b724f246f38ce57fb4e3cec356
>
> # start round
> cp /path/to/.config .
> make oldconfig
> make
> # install kernel, check whether it's good or bad, then:
> git bisect [bad|good]
> # start next round
>
>
> After at about 8 reboots, you'll have found the guilty commit
> ("...  is first bad commit").
>
>
> More information on git bisecting:
>   man git-bisect
>
> <--  snip  -->
>
>
>   
>> ~Randy
>>     
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> [1] the start and end commits and the number of reboots are variable,
>     but the rest of the text is generic
>
>   
Kernel built and installed, so I shall have something to report in the 
next couple of days.
Regards
Sid.

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