Re: Linux 2.5.5-dj1 - Bug Reports

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 20:23:29 EST


On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:21:49AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > It compiled fine. When I booted up everything looked normal with the
> > exception of a
> > eth1: going OOM
> > message that kept scrolling down the screen. My eth1 is a natsemi card.
>
> That's interesting. Probably moreso for Manfred. I'll double check
> I didn't goof merging the oom-handling patch tomorrow.
>
> > Eventually that stopped and gdm came up. For some reason my keyboard and
> > mouse wouldn't work.
>
> -dj includes a different input layer to Linus' tree, which requires
> some extra options enabled. Vojtech, this is quite a frequent
> 'bug report', and I think if you merged that with Linus, the number
> of reports would climb. Is there a possibility of simplifying the
> config.in somewhat? Or at least changing the defaults to give the
> element of least surprise..

The defaults are changed :(. However people coying their .configs over
don't use the defaults. The help files say what to do in case of doubt.
I'm not sure what more I can do.

I'll try to think about that.

> > It got to check.c in fs/partitions before stopping with an error.
>
> That one I've not got an answer for. Can you give me more information
> about your disk layout, partitions, number of disks, scsi?/ide?/lvm?
>
> --
> | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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