Q: new kernel not booting (init segfaults) : how to debug ?

2007-09-24 Thread Danny ter Haar
System: firewall -Epia 5000 via c3 system -bios 2.07 (latest available, upgraded from 1.09 with same behaviour) -128Mb flash memory (ide emulation) -256mb ram -voyage linux (debian based) Runs "standard" kernel just fine, 2.6.22.17 also compiles/runs where as 2.6.23-rcX wont Typed over from scree

typo fix Kernel config option

2007-09-21 Thread Danny ter Haar
--- lib/Kconfig.debug.orig 2007-09-21 20:40:08.544353283 +0200 +++ lib/Kconfig.debug 2007-09-21 20:40:33.478816660 +0200 @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ select KALLSYMS_ALL config LOCK_STAT - bool "Lock usage statisitics" + bool "Lock usage statistics" depends on DEBUG_KER

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-08-30 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Michal Piotrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc4. > CPUFREQ > Subject : ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/298 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/371

Re: Update: ACPI problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not: (was ide not working)

2007-08-01 Thread Danny ter Haar
Okay Redid git bisect from start: git bisect log git-bisect start # good: [098fd16f5f665d3baa7e682d8cb3d7c0fe6f] Linux 2.6.22 git-bisect good 098fd16f5f665d3baa7e682d8cb3d7c0fe6f # good: [098fd16f5f665d3baa7e682d8cb3d7c0fe6f] Linux 2.6.22 git-bisect good 098fd16f5f665d3baa7e682d8

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-31 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Also, please test with CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=n > to remove the acpi-cpufreq driver (and thus this patch) > from your kernel. If it still fails, then we know > that this driver (and this patch) are not related > to the failure. It wasn't enabled in any of

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-31 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hmmm, okay, the "big hammer" works. Please see > if any of these smaller hammers work: > acpi=noirq died within 2 minutes > notsc After 36 minutes -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-30 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hmmm, okay, the "big hammer" works. Please see > if any of these smaller hammers work: > > pnpacpi=off Went out for dinner, machine was frozen on return. One less on the checklist .. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-30 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Please attach the output from acpidump to > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7880 done also on : http://www.dth.net/kernel/acpidump_output_via_c3_5000 > We'll likely be able to tell from it if that patch > has any real effect on your system, or

Re: Update: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not:

2007-07-29 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Gabriel C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now while we think is ACPI this should be easy for you to bisect. > This commit > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=39804b20f62532fa05c2a8c3e2d1ae551fd0327b > merged ACPI so this one should be your first bad one. >

Re: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not

2007-07-28 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Gabriel C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Maybe try to : > disable BSG ( maybe some leftover bug ) > boot acpi=off ( that got merged kind late ) My first git disected kernel wouldn't boot, but with acpi=off it would indeed boot! As did the 2.6.23-rc1-git5 kernel... I will bisect further to find

Re: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not

2007-07-28 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Please retry with the latest -git kernel and if the problem is still > there install git, get kernel tree and run git-bisect. I ran over "make menuconfig" and did a few changes. http://www.dth.net/kernel/config-2.6.23-rc1-git5 It boots, bu

Re: ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not

2007-07-28 Thread Danny ter Haar
Quoting Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Should be harmless for now but we would like to fix it the long-term, > please send "hdparm --Istdout /dev/hda" output. I allready made that available in the same subdir: http://www.dth.net/kernel/ Output repeated here: voyage:~# hdparm

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-27 Thread Danny ter Haar
I hate responding to myself but it's necessary: >RC7-GIT7 barfed on me after some 20 hours: complete serial console message before it reset is on: http://newsgate.newsserver.nl/kernel/ as is config-file. Hardware: AMD64 running pure-64 debian ony tyan motherboard with opteron 250 cpu

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-27 Thread Danny ter Haar
>I Wrote: >After 53 hours and 31 minutes it crashed. >dth pts/1zaphod.dth.net Wed Aug 24 09:54 - crash (2+05:31) >reboot system boot 2.6.13-rc7 Wed Aug 24 09:51 (2+05:41) > >Prior to this kernel it had been running 2.6.12-mm1 without problems: >reboot system boot

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-26 Thread Danny ter Haar
Danny ter Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Of course it will probably reboot just after sending this message. Me and my big mouth... If there is a god he is making fun of me right now ;-) After 53 hours and 31 minutes it crashed. dth pts/1zaphod.dth.net Wed Aug 24 09:54 -

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-26 Thread Danny ter Haar
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really wanted to release a 2.6.13, but there's been enough changes >while we've been waiting for other issues to resolve that I think it's >best to do a -rc7 first. > >Most of the -rc7 changes are pretty trivial, either one-liners or >affecting some

Re: 2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Danny ter Haar
Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is the machine running X? We need some output from it so we can debug >> what's going on, the info should be printed to the console. It would >> be great if you could run the latest kernel and see if you get any >> output. Also add nmi_watchdog=2 to th

2.6.13-rcX really this bad ?

2005-08-14 Thread Danny ter Haar
I've posted a couple of times than my newsserver is not stable with any 2.6.13-rcX kernels. Last kernel that survived is 2.6.12-mm1 (18+days) Of course i can just stick with that kernel, but i thought it would be wise to live on the edge and run a reasonable loaded server with the latest/greatest.

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI bug fixes before 2.6.13

2005-08-10 Thread Danny ter Haar
James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This tree represents the final bug fixes, both for oopses seen by >various people. One is for the dual binding of the i2o drivers and the >other is for an oops adding and removing devices from the lpfc and >qlogic fibre drivers. > >The tree is at >www.k

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and >we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a >relevant machine, please do test this. with me, rc6 lasted 18 hours: reboot system boot 2.6.13-rc6

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Danny ter Haar wrote: >>What i dont "get" is that ethernet also goes down when the scsi >>controller goes bezerk. >>I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem since 2.6.12-mm1 survives >>and brings thi

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-07 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 >> have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others keep crashing: >The latest -git ke

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-git2 does not boot on (my) amd64

2005-08-05 Thread Danny ter Haar
Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VM: killing process hotplug > Unable to handle kernel paging request at fff28017b5be RIP: > [] >-git3 works! whe! thanks guys. ACK! The newsgateway is pounding on git3 as well ;-) # procinfo Linux 2.6.13-rc5-git3 ([EMA

2.6.13-rc5-git2 does not boot on (my) amd64

2005-08-04 Thread Danny ter Haar
This is as far as it comes: Freeing unused kernel memory: 248k freed VM: killing process hotplug VM: killing process hotplug VM: killing process hotplug VM: killing process hotplug Unable to handle kernel paging request at fff28017b5be RIP: [] PGD 103027 PUD 0 Oops: 0010 [1] CPU 0 Modules lin

busy usenet server: only stable kernel is 2.6.12-mm1, rest (including 2.6.13-rc4*) barfs within a few days

2005-07-31 Thread Danny ter Haar
I'm going nuts... A tyan AMD64 opteron machine functioning as a usenet gateway really pumps some traffic a day (http://newsgate.newsserver.nl) Incoming traffic comes through a optical gig-E card (acenic) and local traffic is fed to our spool boxes through cupper gig-E (tigon3). Machine uses adaptec

Re: Linux 2.4.6-preX and MediaGX

2001-06-21 Thread Danny ter Haar
Thibaut LAURENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Any idea ? Try without APIC support compiled into the kernel. I've seen too many different setup's barf on that! ;-) Danny -- Holland Hosting www.hoho.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: halting does not shutdown with 2.4.6pre3 (neither on 2.4.5-acxx)

2001-06-17 Thread Danny ter Haar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >with 2.4.6pre3 or not. I have >also applied the latest patch from reiserfs.org >I have intel i810, celeron 566, 384MB i also use reiserfs (only) on my systems and experience samen problems with 2.4.5-ac11 and up. Somehow the machine seems to "hang" on unmounting the

www.bzimage.org: bad intermediate patch 2.4.5-ac9-ac10

2001-06-09 Thread Danny ter Haar
We had for an hour or so a bad intermediate diff going from kernel 2.4.5-ac9 to ac10. The size of the patch was 800+ kilobyte. The new "good" one is about 163 kilobyte. If you try to apply the wrong patch, it complains about scsidrivers beeing reversed. Sorry for the troubles. Danny -- Hollan

Re: Intellimouse in 2.4.5-ac7

2001-06-02 Thread Danny ter Haar
Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i am running ac7 right now (and was running ac6 with the patch) and my >IntelliMouse works fine. SOmetimes my laptop doesn't see my intellithingy as well (ac5) Reconnecting the mouse helpes to force recognising it. Mayby the same with ac6 ? Danny -- Hol

Re: international patches from kerneli far behind

2001-06-01 Thread Danny ter Haar
L Larssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At this moment the latest patches are 2.2.18.3 and 2.4.3.1 while the kernel at >now is at 2.2.19 and 2.4.5. I try and keep a crypto up-to-date with the latest ac-tree: www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ currently: against 2.4.5-ac6 (268 kilob

Re: ethernet still quits

2001-06-01 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Working on the problem. You'll need to downgrade the 8139too driver to >the current 'ac' patches or a previous version on >http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ temporarily. also on : www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/v2.4/alan/v2.4.5/ 8139_too_work.c (62kB) And

Re: BUG REPORT: 2.4.4 hang on large network transfers with RTL-8139

2001-05-29 Thread Danny ter Haar
Anton Voloshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2.4.3 works Ok, 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 both has this problem. >Lamer's assumption: maybe troubles with sendfile() after zero-copy patches? no, the patch in 2.4.3-ac7 caused a lot of problems for a lot of people. Simply compile 8139too.c from an old kernel on t

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac7

2001-05-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >is the EXTRAVERSION set properly in Makefile? I use the http://www.bzim= >age.org >intermediate diff (chosen ~40K to ~2M) from ac6 nd I still have >2.4.4-ac6 login prompt (and Makefile says: EXTRAVERSION =3D -ac6). >From the original patch (agains vanilla 2.4.4)

Re: 2.4.4-ac[356]: network (8139too) related crashes

2001-05-09 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andris Pavenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With kernels 2.4.4-ac[356] I'm getting system freezing on FTP transfer after >some time. I'm trying to upload about 6.5Mb file using MC (transfer speed > about 300-1000Kb/s). With these kernel versions I'm getting random total >freezing system (no any

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac2

2001-04-03 Thread Danny ter Haar
In article <9ae3qj$pc9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I wrote: >It's still done manually, and now with the 2.4.3 series we >have to adjust the scripts a bit. Scripts adjusted, time for some sleep ;-) Danny -- Holland Hosting www.hoho.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac2

2001-04-03 Thread Danny ter Haar
Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You still have the URL for www.bzimage.org in this announcement, >but there are no incremental patches there for either 2.4.3-ac1 >or 2.4.3-ac2. They're made as i type ;-) It's still done manually, and now with the 2.4.3 series we have to adjust the scripts

Re: Where's Alan?

2001-03-22 Thread Danny ter Haar
alterity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Haven't seen a post for sometime from the usually prolific Mr Cox. >What's the gossip? Don't worry, missed him as well, but he's been posting comments since yesterday. His personal webpage hasn't been updated since 13th of this month though... Danny -- ---

Re: making menuconfig on a 2.4.2-ac6 kernel :-)

2001-02-28 Thread Danny ter Haar
Lombardo, Federico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please report alan :-) patch has already been posted here. Incremental ac patches are available at: www.bzimage.org ac5-ac6 is patched with right EXTRAVERSION and make menuconfig patch. Danny - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac4

2001-02-26 Thread Danny ter Haar
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the moment get it from > ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.4-ac or get it from: www.bzimage.org/kernel-patches/alan/v2.4.2 where also incremental patches are available eg: 94691 Feb 26 07:41 patch-2.4.2-ac3-ac4.bz2 Danny - To unsu

Re: PRoblem with pcnet32 under 2.4.0 , was :Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-15 Thread Danny ter Haar
I experimented some further today. using some printk i found out is was setting Fullduplex, hardcoded that to half-duplex (mine is connected to a hub and not a switch) , and it's configuration was 100Mbit as it was supposed to. Then i started looking at the start_xmit code and got lost :-))) Ho

Re: PRoblem with pcnet32 under 2.4.0 , was :Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-12 Thread Danny ter Haar
Hans Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> lspci -vx output: >What about the other devices? ok, here's the full listing : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00: 78 10 0

PRoblem with pcnet32 under 2.4.0 , was :Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-12 Thread Danny ter Haar
According to Hans Grobler: > If you're willing, would you please follow "REPORTING-BUGS" and send some > more info. Also cat /proc/interrupts. This one's intriging... In short: Cyrix Multimedia box Everything onboard, including ethernet. Works as supposed to under 2.2.x (including 2.2.19pre7) i

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does this patch help at all? Nope, unfortunatly it didn't > filename="pcnet32.patch" pcnet32_probe_pci: found device 0x001022.0x002000 ioaddr=0x00fce0 resource_flags=0x000101 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 PCnet chip version is 0x22

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
>Jan 11 12:45:49 multimedia kernel: eth0: pcnet32_start_xmit() called, csr0 07f3. >Jan 11 12:46:01 multimedia last message repeated 12 times hot from the ethernet wire: more info just arrived: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, status 07f3, resetting. Ring data

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's a "reporting problems" section at the end >of Documentation/networking/vortex.txt. Should help. okidoki, have read it, thanks >Probably the most important thing is inserting the driver >module with `debug=7', opening the device, sending some >t

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
According to Andi Kleen: > "Doesn't work" isn't a very useful bug report. What happens exactly? > Do the RX/TX/error counters increase when you try to send packets? no, the counters you see with ifconfig eth0 are set to zero for rx and to 1 for tx. So it's trying to send out data but somehow

Re: Drivers under 2.4

2001-01-11 Thread Danny ter Haar
Hans Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The softnet changes are most likely the primary source of breakage (for >network drivers). I happen to have a multimedia box from siemens/fujitsu with a cyrix processor, chipset and amd/lance ethernet chipset onboard. It' working fine with 2.2.x but not