Re: 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults

From: James Bottomley
Date: Tue Feb 01 2011 - 17:12:47 EST


On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 00:00 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> I have been testing devel kernels on SMP L1000 successfully until
> 2.6.38-rc2-00324-g70d1f36 included. The testing means booting the new
> kernel and running aptitude to update to current debian unstable.
>
> Now I tried 2.6.38-rc3 and got a crash from aptitude on 2 out of 2
> tries. Maybe aptitude was broken inbetween but it looks like a kernel
> bug. Retried 2.6.38-rc2-00324-g70d1f36 and that seemed to work fine so
> it's more likely a kernel problem.
>
> What additional information can I provide?

Probably a bisection, if you could. There have been no parisc patches
between -rc2 and -rc3, so it's coming from outside the architecture.

Thanks,

James


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