linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs

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Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:52:11 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	werner <w.landgraf@...ru>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jaxboe@...ionio.com, tj@...nel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git2 boot crashs

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:52 PM, werner <w.landgraf@...ru> wrote:
>
> Enclosed is still the /var/log/debug file.

Can you please just do what I asked to, namely do the minimal config.

That will also make it _much_ faster for you to compile the kernel
(you can probably do it in 10 minutes or less if you just get a really
nice config that only has the stuff you actually require - on my
machine I compile my kernel in about 3 minutes from scratch).

And not only would it tell us something (namely whether the problem
persists or not), but if it _does_ persist even with a minimal kernel
that only has the drivers you need, it would make it much more
feasible to do a bisect because now the compile/test cycle would be
much shorter.

So please, just do it.  Because quite frankly, by now you're mainly
just wasting everybody's time.

>  UNFORTUNATELY, IT DONT SHOWS THE
> KERNEL VERSION (THIS IS SOMETHING WHAT YOU COULD CORRECT !!!)

The kernel version shows up in dmesg as the very first thing. Something like

[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.39-rc5-00127-g1be6a1f89f13
(torvalds@...linux-foundation.org) (gcc version 4.5.1 20100924 (Red
Hat 4.5.1-4) (GCC) ) #9 SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 29 16:28:05 PDT 2011

You've just lost it, possibly because your dmesg file ended up growing
too large, or possibly because some tool just didn't bother to save
it.

                        Linus
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