Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Anytime and subscribed :). That may even be an RC as full ipv6 was a release goal of squeeze. Also, if it really was corrupting your It is clearly something that requires testing on UP, probably on a i486 to reproduce (otherwise, our kernels would be

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 19:49, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com writes: Yay. I'll build one on my PC. Ah. To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to building a kernel exactly the same as what's in linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? I'm

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 14:45, Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com wrote: To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to building a kernel exactly the same as what's in linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? More RTFMing required on my part, sorry. In the DEBIAN.Readme for the linux-image source

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: 3. Reproduce the crash, log *everything* since boot. Before I go off to bugzilla, I just want to check that I've actually got debugging information here, since to me it doesn't look that different. Do I need to boot

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/13/2010 05:16 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: Before I go off to bugzilla, I just want to check that I've actually got debugging information here, since to me it doesn't look that different. Do I need to boot with a special kernel arg? Looks like this bug was reported on the avahi upstream

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 22:35, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: The person responding indicates a kernel problem, which makes sense when you actually get a kernel panic as a result. This was also indicated on this list. I'm trying to figure out if there's a simpler way to trigger it, but

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com writes: To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to building a kernel exactly the same as what's in linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? I'm on a PC with amd64 arch, so I created a i386 chroot: I have personally used

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I could be wrong Yikes.  You really need to track this one

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 06:35, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Disabling support for ipv6 can actually be done via a kernel parameter, so recompiling to remove ipv6 support should not be needed. Use the kernel parameter ipv6.disable=1. Yep, disabling IPv6 stops the crash! So where

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 08:58 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: So where should I report it, debian kernel bug tracker or upstream bug tracker? I figured the former, since it's not a bleeding edge kernel I'm running, but maybe I'm wrong. Cheers, Jason I would

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a fix when it can be backported from a newer upstream. Interesting, no crash with

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 09:57 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 My real solution to all of this was to disable IPv6 altogether. Thanks everyone for the help :) (Also,

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/14/2010 12:32 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 My

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 12:52, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Anytime and subscribed :). That may even be an RC as full ipv6 was a release goal of squeeze. Also, if it really was corrupting your filesystem, I would think that would be a critical RC. That's harder to assert, I think. My

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 10:59, Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com wrote: 4. File a bug on bugzilla.kernel.org with all relevant information.  This does include the kernel config at the very least. It's just the Debian stock kernel config. Should I recompile it with any kind of debugging

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com writes: Should I recompile it with any kind of debugging information enabled, or does the Debian kernel already contain it? It depends on the architecture and debian version. Please post a proper bug report with reportbug that shows all the relevant version

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 23:44, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: [ I guess Henrique's interpretation of the problem is better than mine,  I just wanted to follow-up on this specific question. ] How would I know? $ dmesg | grep Write cache sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
[please keep this on the list] Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com writes: Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Please install linux-image-2.6.32-5-486-dbg Qemu won't start, it can't find a framebuffer: (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed -- No such file or

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 15:59, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com writes: Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Please install linux-image-2.6.32-5-486-dbg There is no such package:

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com writes: Yay. I'll build one on my PC. Ah. Qemu defaults to X. Copying the system image to some machine that runs X is probably the safest solution, you can then run qemu without any extra privileges.. Done, but avahi-daemon installs without a hitch

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I could be wrong Yikes.  You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is any different

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
On 10 October 2010 21:43, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Looks like a kernel panic or a kernel oops. Seeing the start of it would be helpful. Any tips on catching it? Will there be useful info in a log somewhere? That looks like your filesystem is damaged beyond what one could

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 03:03, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Any tips on catching it? Will there be useful info in a log somewhere? It *could* have made it to /var/log/syslog, but I am not particularly optimistic about that. No, I had checked that already. :/ May be. Do you have

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs: CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I could be wrong Yikes. You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is any different from a regular 486.

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: t My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs: CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I could be wrong Yikes.  You really need to track

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 09:59 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuhh...@debian.org wrote: [snip] The box objected VERY HEAVILY to the ipv6 multicast operations trigerred by avahi. Given this, can you think of another way I might be able to trigger the bug? If

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
2010/10/12 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net: My 1st thought was whether you need IPv6... Well, no, and if I can't sort this out then I'll recompile without it and see if the crash goes away (or... can I black list it, or is IPv6 compiled right in?). But this might be a good opportunity to find

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 10:11 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: 2010/10/12 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net: My 1st thought was whether you need IPv6... Well, no, and if I can't sort this out then I'll recompile without it and see if the crash goes away (or... can I black list it, or is IPv6 Sure.

Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-10 Thread Jason Heeris
My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs: CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I could be wrong RAM: 256MB Swap: partitioned, about 236MB (just what the installer recommended) Kernel: 2.6.32-5-486 Debian: Squeeze (from installer daily build, updated