Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crashes

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 12:33:14 EST


On Tuesday 27 July 2004 10:29, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:33:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings everybody;
>>
>> I have now had 4 crashes while running 2.6.8-rc2, the last one
>> requiring a full powerdown before the intel-8x0 could
>> re-establish control over the sound.
>>
>> All have had an initial Opps located in prune_dcache, and were
>> logged as follows:
>> Jul 27 07:58:58 coyote kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL
>> pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
>
>... which means that dentry_unused list got corrupted, which doesn't
> really help. Could you try to narrow it down to 2.6.8-rc1-bk<day>?

And something else that doesn't help, I just found that 2.6.8-rc1
doesn't have the reverse engineered nforce2 support, so a remake for
this mobo probably won't fly past the decompression stage. But
2.6.8-rc1-mm1 does have it, but under a different xconfig entry. Its
building now.

--
Cheers, Gene
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Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author
Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004,
Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
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