Re: unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-24 Thread David Miller
Josip, give this debugging patch a try. It is against 2.6.23.1 but it should apply to most recent kernels. It should give you debugging messages in the kernel log that start with "FUTEX_BUG" if the debugging code triggers. Please post just a few samples of whatever it spits out. Thanks! diff

Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.

2007-10-24 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:46:54PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > Prebuilt for Ubuntu 7.04: > http://landley.net/code/firmware/downloads/cross-compiler/host-i686/cross-compiler-sparc.tar.bz2 > > Source code: > Or http://landley.net/code/firmware/downloads/firmware-0.2.2.tar.bz2 Thanks - I already go

Re: [BUG] Raid1/5 over iSCSI trouble

2007-10-24 Thread David Miller
From: "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:28 -0700 > Hopefully it is as painless to run on sparc as it is on IA: > > opcontrol --start --vmlinux=/path/to/vmlinux > > opcontrol --stop > opreport --image-path=/lib/modules/`uname -r` -l It is painless, I use it all the

Re: [BUG] Raid1/5 over iSCSI trouble

2007-10-24 Thread Dan Williams
On 10/24/07, BERTRAND Joël <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Any news about this trouble ? Any idea ? I'm trying to fix it, but I > don't see any specific interaction between raid5 and istd. Does anyone > try to reproduce this bug on another arch than sparc64 ? I only use > sp

Re: unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-24 Thread David Miller
From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:28:12 +0200 > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:58:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Let's see if there is some aspect of the environment that > > contributed to the problem occurring. Please reproduce > > with 2.6.23-final and then list

Re: unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:58:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > I know, I've seen this report a million times :-) Oh, I know you know, I mailed you a while ago and you told me to mail the mailing list :) > I can't reproduce it, I've even tried the fabled test case > where you spawn thousands of d

Re: unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-24 Thread David Miller
From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:33:32 +0200 > We've been having grave issues with a few of our sparc build daemon machines > in Debian. Something causes dpkg-query(8) processes, otherwise harmless, to > run amok and allocate too much memory, but keep running and bec

unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-24 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, (I forgot to send this before...) We've been having grave issues with a few of our sparc build daemon machines in Debian. Something causes dpkg-query(8) processes, otherwise harmless, to run amok and allocate too much memory, but keep running and become resilient to killing. They eventually p

Re: arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c:237: error: implicit declaration of function 'next_sg'

2007-10-24 Thread David Miller
From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:11:02 +0200 > Hi, > > Just tried 2.6.24-rc1... but: > > arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c: In function 'prepare_sg': > arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c:237: error: implicit declaration of > function 'next_sg' > cc1: warnings bei

arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c:237: error: implicit declaration of function 'next_sg'

2007-10-24 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Just tried 2.6.24-rc1... but: arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c: In function 'prepare_sg': arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c:237: error: implicit declaration of function 'next_sg' cc1: warnings being treated as errors arch/sparc64/kernel/iommu_common.c:237: warning: assignment makes pointe

Re: [BUG] Raid1/5 over iSCSI trouble

2007-10-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hello, Any news about this trouble ? Any idea ? I'm trying to fix it, but I don't see any specific interaction between raid5 and istd. Does anyone try to reproduce this bug on another arch than sparc64 ? I only use sparc32 and 64 servers and I cannot test on other

Re: [uml-devel] User Mode Linux still doesn't build in 2.6.23-final.

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Jeff. On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:22:40AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:54:46PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > Guess what? I still need this patch to build the final 2.6.23, months > > later. > > > > I know it may not be the right fix, but the build breaks for me without

Re: [BUG] Raid1/5 over iSCSI trouble

2007-10-24 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Hello, Any news about this trouble ? Any idea ? I'm trying to fix it, but I don't see any specific interaction between raid5 and istd. Does anyone try to reproduce this bug on another arch than sparc64 ? I only use sparc32 and 64 servers and I cannot test on other archs. Of course, I