linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:52:31 +0300
From:	Edward Shishkin <edward@...esys.com>
To:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	bluez-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, reiserfs-dev@...esys.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:23:54 -0600 Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org> wrote:
>
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>>On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Temporarily at
>>>
>>>  http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
>>>
>>>Will appear later at
>>>
>>>  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
>>>      
>>>
>>First impressions:
>>Several of the same bugs as rc3-mm*:
>>      * Freezes immediately if I touch the wlan0 device after loading
>>        the new Broadcom wireless driver.
>>    
>>
>
>cc linux-wireless
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>>      * Freezes immediately if I allow Bluetooth to configure.
>>    
>>
>
>cc bluez-devel
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>>      * All freezes simply stop, no BUG or panic happens, no watchdog,
>>        soft or NMI ever triggers.  Thinking about it, I wonder if
>>        disabling EDAC_K8 would help here?  Does it steal NMI?  I'll try
>>        that later.
>>    
>>
>
>Mabe that will be fixed by the just-uploaded
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/hot-fixes/tty-in-tiocsctty-when-we-steal-a-tty-hang-it-up-fix.patch
>
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>>      * I am using Reiser4 and after one of the above freezes and hard
>>        power cycle, files that were in use *read*only* are filled with
>>        zeros.
>>

did you enable compression announced not so long ago?
anyway, it would be better to check your fs by fsck.reiser4

>>  For example, while testing and experiencing the above
>>        freezes, I lost /etc/ld.so.preload
>>        and /lib/security/pam_limits.so.  What the heck?
>>    
>>
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>cc reiserfs-dev
>  
>

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