On Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 08:54:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just as I thought I was getting on top of my Gentoo installation on a > > MacBook, a new kernel oops unpleasantly, although it manages to boot into > > a Gnome desktop eventually. No wireless is available (broadcom-sta > > proprietary drive is used). Shutting down/rebooting is a hit and miss > > operation. Invariably I have to hold the power button to force it to > > shut down. Shutting the lid does not put it to sleep but goes into some > > race condition with the fans spinning like mad. The screen is black > > thereafter until I force it to shutdown. > > > > Previous kernel 4.4.9 had no such problems. > > > > I attach the log output. Please let me know if you want to see the kernel > > .config too. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > You could either try a more recent kernel, the current stable kernel > upstream being 4.9.8. Chances are this oops may have been fixed there. > > Otherwise, you could report this oops to the Gentoo kernel devs with > more info on where the oops happened supplied. See the > oops-tracing.txt doc available here, > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/D > ocumentation/oops-tracing.txt?id=refs/tags/v4.9.8, for details on how to do > this. > > Hope this helps.
Thanks Alexander, I emerged 4.9.8 and it now boots fine, shows no oops and shuts down without any drama. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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