From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934078AbYEBAj0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:39:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758393AbYEBAiw (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:38:52 -0400 Received: from smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.97]:28252 "HELO smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757727AbYEBAiv (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 20:38:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=NBf4m4VT4i+0j7njcKjyQi+9Q2Jtc+/cZ0XTfzKK3g4e6W9vsI/HXbS2FZBULjh7S2cPfSkUCPxk3ViNP3IBtUD8GU70hphzgSeOSi0vP7grzI2GYF/haiDOJovAM++HBImHhX/Xu/WfSRAH1WG2NDnSoqwJZsNb4IVAVqdKwmc= ; X-YMail-OSG: wjYUw.MVM1n9Xr03_COEzxZKM4peDz50xGqeV133RxrkslTUTk6MkofPD_zJnT4IhHp9h4w.Jed3STboDD5ICpXpWdVWA_.ITxbrI5GfXS_UTnnfLUwAjT5Lkr15o01BH2svEM07WfjGc6Sxa3a1HXu6 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <481A624C.9050302@sbcglobal.net> Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 17:37:32 -0700 From: Ryan Roth User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Ryan.Roth@CH2M.com, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStarting With 2.6.24.5 Kernel References: <20080501130444.cc5c63e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB6069DD742@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> <20080501133003.be723364.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86A21F45FFA48B408A65E67054362EB621C948@CULEBRA.amr.ch2m.com> <481A5276.4040607@sbcglobal.net> <20080501170239.9b740877.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481A5A94.2080400@sbcglobal.net> <20080501173408.384b4fc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080501173408.384b4fc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:36 -0700 > Ryan Roth wrote: > > >> Since this last boot I have only got these: >> >> >>> May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3112]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda >>> sp 7fff4712c870 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000] >>> May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3116]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda >>> sp 7fff2959cce0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000] >>> May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3119]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda >>> sp 7fffc7671db0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000] >>> > > OK. > > Well I don't know what the heck to do about that. It could be that we've > gone and changed the contents of (say) an acpi /proc file, and this happens > to cause your particular version of gnome-power-manager to take a different > (and buggy) codepath, so it crashes. Or something like this. > > I hate to do this to you, but our best hope for getting to the bottom of > this is for you to run a git bisection search to find out what we did which > triggered this. http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some > instructions. > > Or you could go the other route and work out where and why > gnome-power-manager is crashing. > > You could try upgrading (or downgrading) your gnome-power-manager version, > see if that affects things. > > Does the problem affect only gnome-power-manager? > > gnome-power-manager ift-callout gdm-binary seem to be the only ones effected