Re: 2.6.23-mm1

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

Hi,

> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
> 
> - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an attempt
>   to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.
> 
>   But that didn't stop all the subsystem maintainers from going nuts, with
>   the usual accuracy.  We're up to a 37MB diff now, but it seems to be working
>   a bit better.

Works a bit better right :) At least it boots here but I have a strange problem with it.

It seems 2.6.23-mm1 kills off java. Every program needs java here does not work anymore telling
'my java' installation is incorrect. Also I noticed firefox is acting weird as well thunderbird.
Gtk apps just random freeze and need be killed with -11.

Running 'java -version' manually returns nothing , 'java -jar some.jar' does nothing as well. ( not even a error or anything else )

( I've also tested sun's java 1.5 and 1.6 and openjre as well all with same result )

I only have a WARNING in my dmesg but i don't think this is related to this :

Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146448] WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:586 __mntput()
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146478]  [<c0167cb2>] mntput_no_expire+0x5d/0xab
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146503]  [<c01683d1>] sys_umount+0x1f8/0x202
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146511]  [<c010f368>] check_pgt_cache+0x13/0x15
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146529]  [<c0158cd0>] sys_stat64+0xf/0x23
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146549]  [<c0147a9c>] remove_vma+0x31/0x36
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146574]  [<c010fbf6>] do_page_fault+0x180/0x4ea
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146600]  [<c01683e6>] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146614]  [<c010258e>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146639]  [<c02e0000>] xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0x2bd/0x37b
Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146656]  =======================


I also noticed some programs like vlc segfaults :

vlc[20506]: segfault at 01950000 eip 01950000 esp b4876368 error 4

Booting 2.6.23 makes all these go away.

I don't have anything else in my logs. Any idea what patches could cause this problem(s) ?

Config can be found there -> http://194.231.229.228/2.6.23-mm1-config


Regards,

Gabriel C