linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:40:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>,
	"Michael B. Trausch" <mike@...usch.us>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
> 
>  Well i already sent the result of the revert on another mail;
> it did not help :(

Ahh. Oh, well.

>  I tried again with what i thought was my "good" commit and the
> bug is there too :/
> 
>  could it be that something changed in userspace[1] between the
> day i installed the 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 and today that
> make this bug trigger?

Sure, that's possible. It happens occasionally with updated user-land 
binaries, especially system-related ones (eg something like X or SElinux 
or whatever).

Or perhaps a configuration change meant that if you recompiled the "good" 
kernel, you now recompiled a different config? Or did you re-use the exact 
same kernel image you had originally?

>  Next step is try to find an "actually good" kernel and bisect
> again sigh... 2.6.27.6 seems to work ok

Ok, that's a much bigger bisection thing, but again, even just narrowing 
it down a bit will help. But check the configuration too before you start.

			Linus
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