WARNING: AMDGPU DRM warning in 5.11.9

2021-03-24 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, Theee warnings ares not present in my dmesg log from 5.11.8: [ 43.390159] [ cut here ] [ 43.393574] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1268 at drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c:517 ttm_bo_release+0x172/0x282 [ttm] [ 43.401940] Modules linked in: nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp cfg80211

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[AMDGPU] [OOPS] Warnings 5.8.3 / 5.8.5 kernel logs

2020-08-28 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I've just noticed these oopsen in my dmesg logs. These are from 5.8.3: [ 61.599710] [ cut here ] [ 61.603145] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1756 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:185 drm_warn_on_modeset_not_all_locked+0x66/0x6e [drm] [ 61.613699] Modules linked in: nf

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[BUG] What is "__ptrval__" in my dmesg logs? Bad "%p" expansion?

2019-02-03 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi. I've suddenly realised that my kernel dmesg logs contain lines like: [0.00] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000f5c20-0x000f5c2f] mapped at [(ptrval)] [0.00] Base memory trampoline at [(ptrval)] 98000 size 24576 and [0.00] percpu: Embedded 41 pages/cpu @(

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2019-01-23 Thread Chris Rankin
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Re: BUG warnings in 4.14.9

2017-12-26 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, Reverting this patch seems to have fixed things. Thanks, Chris On 26 December 2017 at 06:21, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 01:49:59AM +0000, Chris Rankin wrote: > (...) >> [ 35.100181] Call Trace: >> [ 35.102709] dump_stack+0x

BUG warnings in 4.14.9

2017-12-25 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I've just raised https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198271 because the new 4.14.9 kernel is generating lots of BUG warnings, e.g. [ 35.069924] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [] code: avahi-daemon/761 [ 35.078187] caller is ip6_pol_route+0x46b/0x509 [ipv6] [

Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity

2017-07-30 Thread David C. Rankin
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Re: Linux 4.9.3

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Rankin
Still no sign of the 4.9.3 patches on the FTP site... Oops? Cheers, Chris

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Re: PWC webcam and setpwc tool no longer working with 3.12.11 kernel

2014-02-21 Thread Chris Rankin
On Friday, 21 February 2014, 9:47, Hans de Goede wrote: > This is likely caused by the camera being plugged into a usb-bus which > already is used > by other reserved-bandwidth devices such as mice, keyboard, usb soundcards, > etc. > If possible USB-3 ports are preferred over USB-2 ports or co

PWC webcam and setpwc tool no longer working with 3.12.11 kernel

2014-02-20 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have an old Logitech webcam, with USB IDs 046d:08b3. When I try to use this camera now, I see this error in the dmesg log: [ 2883.852464] pwc: isoc_init() submit_urb 0 failed with error -28 This error is apparently ENOSPC, which made me suspect that I was trying to use a mode that wou

[BUG][3.5.4] No keyboard without i8042_nokbd=1 parameter

2012-09-15 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have recently upgraded my oldest PC from 3.4.8 to 3.5.4, but was puzzled to discover that the keyboard no longer worked unless I also added the i8042_nokbd=1 boot parameter. It turns out that 3.4.8 didn't use the i8042 keyboard device anyway: >From 3.4.8: ... i8042 aux: probe of 00:07 f

Re: [alsa-devel] snd-intel-hda: screaming IRQ with 3.5.3 kernel (HDMI)

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Rankin
- Original Message - >  Did you try any workaround boot options such as irqpoll, pci=nocrs or >whatever? Actually, it turns out that booting with "irqpoll=1" simply means that this problem takes longer to happen: irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Pid: 3347, c

Re: [alsa-devel] snd-intel-hda: screaming IRQ with 3.5.3 kernel (HDMI)

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Rankin
- Original Message - > Did you try any workaround boot options such as irqpoll, pci=nocrs or > whatever? OK, the "irqpoll=1" option does help here. Although this message is obviously scary: Misrouted IRQ fixup and polling support enabled This may significantly impact system performance

Re: [alsa-devel] snd-intel-hda: screaming IRQ with 3.5.3 kernel (HDMI)

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Rankin
- Original Message - > Did you try any workaround boot options such as irqpoll, pci=nocrs or > whatever? No, because wouldn't "irqpoll" have forced polling for every IRQ on the box? I need to avoid polling on the video card's IRQ because it noticeably impacts the responsiveness. (I assu

snd-intel-hda: screaming IRQ with 3.5.3 kernel (HDMI)

2012-09-08 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have recently added a Radeon HD4670 to one of my older PCs, and have noticed that it has IRQ trouble when I try to enable the HDMI audio: irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.5.3 #2 Call Trace: [] ? __report_bad_irq+0x11/0x94

[BUG] NMI watchdog alert with Linux 2.6.23.16

2008-02-24 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This is a strange NMI lockup - I have no idea what triggered it and so cannot possibly reproduce it. Requests to try (try "what"?) with 2.6.24.x would be similarly unhelpful. But anyway, here it is. A perfectly normal boot of 2.6.23.16 on a dual P4 Xeon (HT enabled, to give 4 logical CPUs)

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg, > it seems that: > arch/x86/pci/legacy.c :: pci_legacy_init() > > tries to create already created "bridge" symlinks in 2.6.24. So we > discover the same devices twice? Can this be a reason for the hang? No, it can't be because it's *not* hangin

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created > > > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() > > > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1 > > > [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f > > > [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 > > > [] dump_

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created > > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() > > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1 > > [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f > > [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 > > [] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and here it hangs, I assume? Oops, I think you have misunderstood. The hang happens if I *don't* specify acpi=noirq, whereas in this case I did. I have already reported the original hang under threads: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-16 Thread Chris Rankin
[Try this again, except this time I'll force the attachment as inline text!] Hi, I have managed to boot 2.6.24.1 on this machine, with the NMI watchdog enabled, by using the "acpi=noirq" option. (There does seem to be some unhappiness with bridge symlinks in sysfs, though.) Cheers, Chris Linu

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-16 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have managed to boot 2.6.24.1 on this machine, with the NMI watchdog enabled, by using the "acpi=noirq" option. (There does seem to be some unhappiness with bridge symlinks in sysfs, though.) Cheers, Chris __ Sent from Yah

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Oliver Pinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here is the snapshots in patch format: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots Thanks, they're very pretty. But what exactly are they patches *between*? Cheers, Chris ___

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does any older kernel version work? 2.6.23? Newer ones? Everything up to and including 2.6.23.11 works fine. I never tried 2.6.23.{12,13,14,15}, but I expect they're fine too. > 2.6.24-git15? No idea. This box isn't really set up to use git. Anyway, I w

Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:31:24PM +0000, Chris Rankin wrote: > > I've just tried booting the 2.6.24.1 kernel, except without > > nmi_watchdog being enabled. It looks like there are IRQs still not > > being enabled. &

Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I've just tried booting the 2.6.24.1 kernel, except without nmi_watchdog being enabled. It looks like there are IRQs still not being enabled. Cheers, Chris Linux version 2.6.24.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 8 22:41:10 GMT 2008

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Rankin
And the same thing with 2.6.24.1. Cheers, Chris Linux version 2.6.24.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 8 22:41:10 GMT 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009f

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it's a CONFIG_SMP=y kernel on a single-cpu machine? Correct. > It is unclear to me what clocksource (if any) your machine is using. The 2.6.23.x kernel uses the TSC: ... ACPI: Core revision 20070126 CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It isn't clear (to me) where in this mess we disabled interrupts around the > set_cpus_allowed(). Chris, if this is repeatable it would be helpful to > set CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y which hopefully will get us a cleaner trace, Here you go, Cheers, Chri

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:36:42 + (GMT) > Chris Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a 1 GHz Coppermine PC with 512 MB RAM, and it is failing to boot > > with the > nmi_watchdog=1 > > option. This

[BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have tried to boot a 2.6.24 kernel on my 1 GHz Coppermine / 512 MB RAM PC. (This is without the nmi_watchdog=1 option.) However, the ATA layer is failing to initialise: Linux version 2.6.24 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 2 22:21:

[BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have a 1 GHz Coppermine PC with 512 MB RAM, and it is failing to boot with the nmi_watchdog=1 option. This kernel was rebuilt after doing a "make mrproper". The dmesg log follows: Linux version 2.6.24 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-27 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did any earlier version of the 2.6 kernel work OK? Kernel 2.6.14 does not work any better than 2.6.23.x, and my F8 userspace environment rejects a 2.4.35 kernel. I will try a 2.6.0 kernel next, but have noticed tonight that a stock Fedora kernel

[BUG] NMI Watchdog alert with Linux 2.6.23.11

2007-12-16 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, My dual Xeon P4 (HT enabled), 2 GB RAM box crashed last night while playing World of Warcraft under Wine (Mesa 7.1, Radeon 9550 card). This is what appeared on the serial console. Cheers, Chris BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, eip c0102aac, registers: CPU:3 EIP:0060:[]

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-12 Thread Chris Rankin
-- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hostap_plx.c first appeared in 2.6.14. > Just a thought: How far back will I be able to compile kernels correctly with gcc 4.1.2? Specifically: gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) Cheers, Chris

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-12 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hm. Could be some platform thing. Strange. It might be worth checking > around that ioremap, make sure that the value which it returned is the one > which is being used in the function-which-hangs, etc. OK, not difficult to try. (This is x86, BTW.)

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-12 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might be interesting to see what value of `i' is causing it to fall over. I tried unrolling the loop, but a single byte read for i = 0 is enough to lock things up. > Did any earlier version of the 2.6 kernel work OK? Unfortunately, I don't know.

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-10 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wonder if there's anything else in that area as well.. This is what /proc/iomem contains: -0009f7ff : System RAM 0009f800-0009 : reserved 000a-000b : Video RAM area 000c-000cbfff : Video ROM 000e4000-000e : Adapte

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the memory you feed to readl() and co isnt the actual PCI resource; > you need to use ioremap() on the PCI resource to get a pointer that you can > then feed to > readl() I gathered that much, and there is indeed a call to ioremap() in the cod

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Stefano Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a fix, but if you load the module with ignore_cis = 1, it should work. Well, if the I/O memory mapping is broken then wouldn't that just move the problem down to the next attempt to access it? Cheers, Chris

Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can you check if the attr_mem is properly ioremap'd ? > (probably with ioremap_nocache) Can you elaborate, please? I am not familiar with these I/O primitives. > I wonder if there's anything else in that area as well.. So I should check /proc/iom

[2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory

2007-12-09 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I've recently been having trouble loading the hostap_plx 802.11b wireless networking driver, and this evening I managed to narrow the problem down to these lines of code by copying code from hostap_plx into a "test driver" until the test driver also locked the PC up: /* read CIS; it

Re: [2.6.23.1] PCI device locking up the computer when its module loads

2007-12-08 Thread Chris Rankin
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:16 +0100 (BST) Chris Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I have a Netgear MA301 PLX wireless networking adapter which wants to use > > > the hostap_plx > > > driver in Linux 2.6.23.1. This very same piece of

Re: Kernel oops with udevd process

2007-11-19 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Raman Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just found this bug: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8198 > > This seems to indicate the problem was resolved in 2.6.21.2. > > However, I also found this, where you reported the problem was back in > 2.6.22.9 (which is what I am curr

Re: [2.6.23.1] PCI device locking up the computer when its module loads

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This same sort of problem was just fixed for iwl4965. The fix for that > was to disable device interrupts until everything the driver needed > (including interrupt handler) was set up and ready before re-enabling > them, I think. See the thread "iwl49

[2.6.23.1] PCI device locking up the computer when its module loads

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have a Netgear MA301 PLX wireless networking adapter which wants to use the hostap_plx driver in Linux 2.6.23.1. This very same piece of hardware works fine in an old(!) P120 machine running 2.4.33, but makes the 2.6.23.1 kernel freeze as soon as the pci_enable_device() function is called

Re: [BUG] The return of the sysfs oops

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't really related to sysfs. It seems module count was too low > and went away while there still were holders. What were you doing when > it happened? Can you reproduce it? I haven't tried reproducing it, but all I was doing was selecting the Au

[BUG] The return of the sysfs oops

2007-10-09 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, Do you remember that oops in sysfs a few versions ago? (Kernel bug 8198) Well, it's bck in 2.6.22.9... Cheers, Chris _ Do not compromise. Get unlimited storage and first rate spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.mail.ya

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.22 - Atomic counter underflow in NFS

2007-08-01 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I expect this is easy to reproduce at will (when shutting down nfs > services, probably), right? I'm not sure about the "at will" part because this is the first time I've seen it since 2.6.22 was released. However, I was upgrading my Fedora 7 nfs-uti

[BUG] Linux 2.6.22 - Atomic counter underflow in NFS

2007-08-01 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I am running a 2.6.22 kernel on a dual P4 Xeon (HT enabled) with 2 GB RAM, and I have just found this BUG in my dmesg log: nfsd: last server has exited nfsd: unexporting all filesystems BUG: atomic counter underflow at: [] kref_put+0x66/0x84 [] sysfs_hash_and_remove+0xb8/0x12d [] sysfs_ha

Re: Libata PATA status

2007-07-05 Thread Chris Rankin
> Why not. I boot back and forth randomly between old and new IDE kernels > without problems. The root fs loaded is set in kernel or grub (or on most > distros nowdays by label scanning from initrd) so just works. Then mount > label or uuid based mounting does the rest. You say that, but I remembe

[BUG] Linux 2.6.21.5 - Radeon NMI lockup

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I experienced this BUG while playing World of Warcraft with a Radeon 9200 AGPx8 video card and FC7: BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU3, eip c019f98f, registers: Modules linked in: snd_rtctimer snd_seq_midi radeon drm cpufreq_ondemand p4_clockmod speedstep_lib nfsd exportfs autofs4 ee

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Rankin
Shouldn't this patch from Tejun be applied to 2.6.21.x as well as 2.6.20.x? Tejun Heo (2): ... driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released Cheers, Chris ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out

Re: [Linux 2.6.21.3] CDRW drive not recognised by PATA (ata_piix)

2007-06-03 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grab the 'always use polling SETXFER' patch... Yes, that did the trick! scsi1 : ata_piix usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2.01: ATAPI, max UDMA

[Linux 2.6.21.3] CDRW drive not recognised by PATA (ata_piix)

2007-06-03 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have tried replacing the old IDE layer on my dual P4 machine with the PATA driver instead, but the CDRW drive on the second IDE bus (the old /dev/hdd drive) is never recognised: ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001ffa0 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Bug creating USB endpoints in 2.6.20.x (kernel bug 8198)

2007-05-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at the code, class > device is already doing it that way, so here's the full-assed fix. > Chris, can you please test the attached patch? Tejun, So far so good; my 2.6.20.11+patch kernel hasn't oopsed yet. I'm going to start using this kernel as

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Bug creating USB endpoints in 2.6.20.x (kernel bug 8198)

2007-05-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, here's a half-assed fix. With this patch applied, if you try to > unload a module while you're opening it's dev attribute, kernel will > oops later when the file is accessed or closed later but it should fix > the bug winecfg triggers. I really dun

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Bug creating USB endpoints in 2.6.20.x (kernel bug 8198)

2007-05-09 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, we can fix the problem Chris is seeing by breaking module unload (by > allowing it to unload too early). It doesn't sound too hot but module > unloading race is much less likely than sysfs node deletion/open race. Yikes! Just temporary breakage, I ho

built 2.6.20.7 on suse 10.0, boots fine, no mouse, network or keyboard

2007-04-18 Thread david rankin
. Is this udev??? If so, can I safely update udev without destroying my 2.6.13-15.15 setup?? Can it be anything else?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --

Re: [new 2.6.21-rc6 crash] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6ceb

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Rankin
Hmm, THAT looks familiar... http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8198 Yes, it is in 2.6.20.x. Cheers, Chris ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ -

RE: Linux 2.6.20.4

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Rankin
[Linux version 2.6.20.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 PREEMPT Sun Mar 25 17:31:32 BST 2007] Hi, I have just booted the 2.6.20.4 kernel on an old 350 MHz P2, and am now seeing these messages in my boot log: Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpr

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try out the following patch to see if we catch a reference > counting underflow: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch Sure, I can do that. Cheers, Ch

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/16/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any way you can use 'git bisect' to try to track down the root > > cause of this? > > Chris, If 2.6.19 works for you, could you please do a git bisect for > this bug? See the following URL for

Re: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:610

2007-03-14 Thread Chris Rankin
Marco Berizzi wrote: > Here is: > > Mar 14 03:42:25 Mimosa kernel: [ cut here ] > Mar 14 03:42:25 Mimosa kernel: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:610! > Mar 14 03:42:25 Mimosa kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] > Mar 14 03:42:25 Mimosa kernel: Modules linked in: sch_sfq sch_htb cls_fw

[BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, It looks like 2.6.20.2 is still doing Bad Things in /sys. Cheers, Chris BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6d6b printing eip: c01300ff *pde = Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: radeon drm pwc eeprom cpufreq_ondemand p4_clockmod speedstep

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should give us a better clue which sysfs file is causing the oops. This BUG happened during boot-up! The only USB device I have is a pwc webcam: $ /sbin/lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID : Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: I

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please apply this patch to your kernel and try to reproduce: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-crash-debugging.patch > > It should give us a better clue which sysfs file

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Rankin
Oh yes - I'd better mention what my Ethernet devices are: $ cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive| Transmit face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo: 820705 1

Re: [Alsa-devel] [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please apply this patch to your kernel and try to reproduce: Ta-DA BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6d6b printing eip: c0130113 *pde = Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP last sysfs file: /clas

Re: [Alsa-devel] [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, but the oops looks more like a reference counting problem with > sysfs dentries. No harm in trying out the patch or reproducing without > CONFIG_SCHED_SMT though. > Nope, no difference. Again, this happened while trying to start World of Warcra

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Call Trace: > > [] sysfs_release+0x2d/0x4c > > [] __fput+0x96/0x13c > > So udevd is closing a sysfs attribute file but the pointer passed to > module_put is bogus. Looks like the sysfs dentry was already taken > down by release_sysfs_dirent(). Can

Re: [Alsa-devel] [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snd_timer_global_register() itself doesn't issue any tasklet, so it > shouldn't be needed. Hmm, this bug looks interesting: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.3/0514.html Yes, my machine *is* a dual P4 with HT enabled... Cheers, Chr

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-02-26 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have any of the preceding kernel log messages? > or can you get them? Unfortunately, there was none. I posted everything there was. Race condition, perhaps? Cheers, Chris ___

[BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This looks like a memory fault to me; are those 0x6b characters "slab poisoning"? This is the dual P4 Xeon / 2 GB RAM machine, and I'm guessing that udevd has just loaded snd_rtctimer (because that's the module at the top of the list): BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual

Kernel warning from Matrox Framebuffer in 2.6.20.1

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have just booted 2.6.20.1 on my Pentium 3 machine, which has a G400 MAX graphics card. This machine uses the Matrox framebuffer and TV-OUT modules, and I have found these warnings in the kernel log: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [DDC:fb0 #0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! **

Re: System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Rankin
> Ok. I've finally figured out what is going on. The code is race free but the > programmer was an > idiot. Hi, Could this IRQ problem account for this bug as well, please? Or is yours strictly a 2.6.19.x issue? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7847 I have a dual P4 Xeon box (HT ena

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't, but Dave Jones had a similar problem earlier this month, > archived at http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0701.0/1822.html > which I think is a followup from > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg105370.html > - a

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment, you have a problem that nobody recognises. If you're not > willing to test if the problem happens repeatably, (you appear to > have had one failure and immediately reverted to an old kernel), who > do you think will be able to fix it? Thi

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-25 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Mark Rustad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'll never know if any of these things were correlated with the > solar flares because they all seem to be one-off failures. I do find > it interesting though. Our systems seem to be doing statistically > better this month. What do you think? Per

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Mark Rustad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly. Halting use of a version of the kernel based on a single > incident provides no insight to the source of the problem. It could > be anything... There is a world of difference between a polite request for more information (although I gave y

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A one off non repeatable error experienced by two people out of the > millions using it does fit the cosmic ray description quite well. Actually it's "unrepeated", not "non repeatable". And that's because I switched back to 2.6.18.x immediately since I no lon

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Mark Rustad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, do you have ECC memory? If not, it is at least possible that > that the solar flares that occurred last month may have affected your > system. I am going to assume that you are being facaetious, because it would be the rarified pinnacle of su

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I'm claiming is that it's no more a reason to avoid 2.6.19* > than to avoid any other release (the kernels before 2.6.7 happened > to have no such check, but that doesn't imply they were any safer). There is *one* reason to avoid 2.6.19.x: it has a

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
> > But MY kernel is clearly untainted. > > So what other explanation is there apart from a kernel bug? > If it's me you're asking: I don't know (overheating, cosmic rays, ...) I suppose what I'm *really* asking is what the basis is for assuming that this *isn't* a kernel bug and can therefore b

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
> That's surely no reason to dump 2.6.19.x, you'll find the occasional > such report on every(?) release since page mapcount went into 2.6.7. This was the only time I've seen it, before or since. > Oftentimes it's bad RAM (try memtest86) There is nothing wrong with my RAM. I tested it quite exte

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Rankin
> But 2.6.18.x must be over now, because the -stable team didn't release a > 2.6.18.7 to match > 2.6.19.2, and all of 2.6.x except for 2.6.19.2 has that weird file corruption > bug . Personally, I dumped 2.6.19.x like a hot coal as soon as I tripped over this bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/sh

[PATCH] Register the bus, vendor and product IDs for dvb-usb remote device

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, This patch writes the USB vendor and product IDs into the /sys/class/input/inputX/id/ files, so that udev can find them. A rule like this does the trick for me: KERNEL="event*", SYSFS{../id/vendor}=="2040", SYSFS{../id/product}=="9301", SYMLINK+="input/dvb-remote" --- linux-2.6.18/drivers/m

Re: [BUG] Sleeping function called from invalid context (2.6.18.6)

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Rankin
This is for a 2.6.18.6 UP-preempt kernel compiled with gcc-4.1.1, BTW. Cheers, Chris ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyou

[BUG] Sleeping function called from invalid context (2.6.18.6)

2007-01-20 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have been testing my wireless zd1211rw driver with kismet, but have noticed my logs filling up with these messages instead: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 [] mutex_lock+0x12/0x1a [] netdev_run_todo+0x10/0x1f1 [] d

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