On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:07:00PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Insan Praja SW wrote: >> Hi, >> On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:17:57 +0700, FRLinux <frli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Insan Praja SW >>> <insan.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Misc@, >>>> on a i386 kernel recent build (6th march), I got panic. It says: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> As far as I know, home built kernel is not supported, you need to try >>> out a snapshot instead and see if it works. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Steph >> >> You are right, but I always had a backup of last working kernel, and >> that is what I use now. But this panic happens and I like to report it >> to see if anyone else experiencing the same panic, with home build >> kernel or snapshot. It's a generic kernel, anyway, I hope I can >> contribute in some other way, you know.. like testing diff or finding >> bugs. >> I also use sendbug(1) to report the panic. >> Thanks, > > You just don't built home build kernel at all. This is really not linux > here. You can configure all you want on it as is.
So what if I want debug symbols to produce meaningful traces from kernel core dumps with gdb? Then I have to compile with DEBUG="-g" to get a bsd.gdb. Then I have a self-compiled kernel already. And what if I'm testing diffs posted to t...@? When testing diffs you usually don't only run them for 5 minutes. You usually run them for as long as you can. I guess these faq entries are there to stop people from tweaking the config so hard that their machine cannot boot anymore, and then reporting this as a bug. They don't exist to stop people who somewhat know what they are doing from reporting things they find in kernels they've compiled themselves. And note that there have recently been changes in the way pf keeps track of icmp, so this may well be a valid report. Stefan
