From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934201AbXCVTta (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:49:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934207AbXCVTta (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:49:30 -0400 Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.6]:46997 "EHLO smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934201AbXCVTt3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:49:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4602DDBC.5000106@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:49:16 +0000 From: Sid Boyce Reply-To: g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk Organization: blueyonder.co.uk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Randy Dunlap , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, auxsvr@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently References: <45E59D64.3070202@blueyonder.co.uk> <200702281805.13822.auxsvr@gmail.com> <20070307214730.87859590.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45EFBC73.2030005@blueyonder.co.uk> <46016EAF.6010801@blueyonder.co.uk> <20070321193420.GP752@stusta.de> <4601DCB4.4060804@blueyonder.co.uk> <20070321184258.758a5a29.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070322105908.GS752@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070322105908.GS752@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks