linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

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Message-ID: <20101023010717.GA20750@deepthought>
Date:	Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:07:17 +0100
From:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36, make oldconfig broken

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 02:20:17PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/22/10 13:08, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 
> > But I'll be interested in what you get.  Its stuff like this that have made 
> > me wary of downloading the kernel images in .bz2 formats, too many times I 
> > have had to go back and get the .gz version because the unpacking of the 
> > .bz2 upchucked and silently threw away a subdir tree, and only a fresh 
> > download fixes it, blowing it away and unpacking the bz2 again will only fix 
> > it occasionally.  I started with the tar.gz of course this time.
> 
> Curiouser and curiouser.
> I always download & build from .bz2 tarballs, with no problems.
> 
 On my own x86 machines, I can remember seeing apparently corrupted
.tar.bz2 files twice in the last eight-or-so years.  In each case,
untarring reported an error, it didn't silently lose files and
directories, and in each case the problem was failing memory.

 In Gene's case, I recommend running memtest86 or better ('+') as
soon as possible.  On my problematic x86 boxes, memtest86 started to
report errors within a minute or so of starting.  If it runs for a
whole cycle, the memory is probably ok.

ken
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