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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] kernel panic (ipv6?)
From:       <danny () mailmij ! org>
Date:       2005-01-31 20:42:31
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0501312141270.7137-100000 () luna ! ellen ! dexterslabs ! com
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Simon Oosthoek wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:03:02PM +0100, danny@mailmij.org wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:54:36PM +0100, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > With an smp kernel?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, this was installed by default. Actually I'm not sure what the default
> > > > .config file of the kernel has set for this (SMP or not)
> > > > 
> > > > > This is important, since i suspect that one processor is freeing a pointer 
> > > > > which the other one tries to use. Trouble is, i've no clue where this is 
> > > > > occuring. if my idea is correct, the patch won't help anyway.
> > > > 
> > > > It did help (or the kernel is now not smp ;-), so maybe it's something else?
> > well, if it helped, name==NULL, but i have no idea what caused this (so 
> > the fix gets rid of the symptomes, but not of the bug itself)
> > > 
> > > I guess the custom kernel is not SMP, I'll rebuild with SMP turned on.
> > > 
> > kk. Also, remember it can be a timing issue, so you may want to try lots 
> > of times.
> 
> I now also had a panic with the uni-processor custom build, so I guess the
> patch doesn't help and it may not be SMP kernel related either.
good, well, at least this rules out some things. I still do not know the 
cause but will keep looking a bit and mail some people if i can't find it.

> 
> the new SMP version is now hanging again on alsa....
> so I can't test the panic :-(
> 
alsa problem seems unrelated to me, although its interesting you seem to 
have it only on smp.

d.



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