Re: 2.6.9-rc4-mm1

[Mathieu Segaud]

Jesse Stockall <stockall@xxxxxxxx> disait dernièrement que :

> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 06:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/
>> 
>> - I wasn't going to do any -mm's until after 2.6.9 comes out.  But we need
>>   this one so that people who have patches in -mm can check that I haven't
>>   failed to push anything critical.  If there's a patch in here which you
>>   think should be in 2.6.9, please let me know.
>> 
>
> Hi
>
> I'm have a Gentoo box and with either 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 or 2.6.9-rc3-mmX
> mozilla-firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, gaim segfault on launch. The Gnome
> desktop env (panel, window manager, etc) run normally.
>
> Rebooting to 2.6.9-rc4 and everything is back to normal.
>
> I have seen 1 other user on #gentoo with the same problem.
>
> Tried with preemptable-blk on and off.

here's a fix
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc4-mm1
wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc4/2.6.9-rc4-mm1/broken-out/optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch
patch -R -p1 < optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch

this should fix the sources and so...

>
> strace, config and dmesg atached.
>
> Thanks

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