linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-mm1

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Message-ID: <471109A3.6020500@googlemail.com>
Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:08:35 +0200
From:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-mm1

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:12:49 +0200 Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
>>>
>>> - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an attempt
>>>   to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.
>>>
>>>   But that didn't stop all the subsystem maintainers from going nuts, with
>>>   the usual accuracy.  We're up to a 37MB diff now, but it seems to be working
>>>   a bit better.
>> Works a bit better right :) At least it boots here but I have a strange problem with it.
>>
>> It seems 2.6.23-mm1 kills off java. Every program needs java here does not work anymore telling
>> 'my java' installation is incorrect. Also I noticed firefox is acting weird as well thunderbird.
>> Gtk apps just random freeze and need be killed with -11.
>>
>> Running 'java -version' manually returns nothing , 'java -jar some.jar' does nothing as well. ( not even a error or anything else )
>>
>> ( I've also tested sun's java 1.5 and 1.6 and openjre as well all with same result )
> 
> We have a screwup in thread handling which might have caused this.
> 
>> I only have a WARNING in my dmesg but i don't think this is related to this :
>>
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146448] WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:586 __mntput()
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146478]  [<c0167cb2>] mntput_no_expire+0x5d/0xab
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146503]  [<c01683d1>] sys_umount+0x1f8/0x202
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146511]  [<c010f368>] check_pgt_cache+0x13/0x15
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146529]  [<c0158cd0>] sys_stat64+0xf/0x23
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146549]  [<c0147a9c>] remove_vma+0x31/0x36
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146574]  [<c010fbf6>] do_page_fault+0x180/0x4ea
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146600]  [<c01683e6>] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146614]  [<c010258e>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146639]  [<c02e0000>] xfrm_tmpl_resolve+0x2bd/0x37b
>> Oct 13 01:44:52 lara [10722.146656]  =======================
> 
> I guess that's the r-o-bind-mounts stuff.
> 
>> I also noticed some programs like vlc segfaults :
>>
>> vlc[20506]: segfault at 01950000 eip 01950000 esp b4876368 error 4
>>
>> Booting 2.6.23 makes all these go away.
>>
>> I don't have anything else in my logs. Any idea what patches could cause this problem(s) ?
>>
>> Config can be found there -> http://194.231.229.228/2.6.23-mm1-config
> 
> what is vlc?

Media player -> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


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