Re: 2.6.23-mm1

Andrew Morton
2007-10-13T18:02:23Z

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:12:49 +0200 Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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 )

We have a screwup in thread handling which might have caused this.

> 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 guess that's the r-o-bind-mounts stuff.

>
> 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

what is vlc?