In message <20090906114229.746d8d99.user.antis...@maison.homelinux.net>, 
Francois Boisson writes:
> Hello
> 
> First, excuse my poor English (I'm French...)
> 
> Well, I'm making a bootable USB key for Maths students since 3 years, you can
> find it here: http://clefagreg.dnsalias.org/
> 
> At the beginning, I was using cloop and a rather complicated systems of links
> like Knoppix. Now I'm using unionfs + squashfs:
> 
> The root of the system is a RO file system union some various extensions (RO
> squashfs systems) union a RW ramdisk. Everything work very well.
> 
> But I have a new problem. I need to run wine for a key dedidaced to a
> competitive entrance exam (Education Nationale teachers). And I have a problem
> with kernel Oops in unionfs and wine,
> 
> Kernels used: 2.6.29-1, unionfs 2.5.1 (for 2.6.29-rc2)
> squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31)
> 
> here is the error:
> 
> Jun 30 18:00:25 agreg kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer 
> dereference at 000000a1
> Jun 30 18:00:25 agreg kernel: IP: [<f847db0f>] unionfs_setattr+0x362/0x377 
> [unionfs]

Francois,

Others have reported a similar bug, in unionfs_setattr.  I fixed and posted
a patch for it a while back.  Yesterday I released unionfs-2.5.3, which
includes this fix formally.  Please give this new release a try and let me
know (via bugzilla please), if it's still broken.

Thanks,
Erez.
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