Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2008 20:21:40 +0100 | From | Ken Moffat <> | Subject | git problem |
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I seem to be doing something wrong. I'm trying to bisect to discover which commit causes my failure to shut down or restart from gdm on one box (the gdm window disappears, but the background remains instead of falling back to a console and shutting down).
So far, I've discovered that the problem is slightly intermittent, so I'm not labelling a kernel good until it successfully restarts or shuts down 10 times (indications are that a bad version will fail in the first 3 attempts).
Anyway, I've confirmed my supposition that 2.6.24 was good in this respect, and that 2.6.25-rc1 was bad. After about a day of bisection / archive / build /test I went to set an extraversion in the Makefile (everything had been labelled 2.6.24 because this was before rc1), and discovered it was already labelled as 2.6.24-rc4, i.e. far too early.
Reset, repeated, git came up with the same commits (I wondered if I'd mispasted at some point). Looked at the log, this seemed to be the newest thing available. Reset, looked at the full log, but I'm out of my depth trying to understand this.
FWIW, these were the commits it told me to test: [1c17f4d615f34a4ecfcf9132d643126b226f5e79] x86: ioremap_nocache fix good
[d2fc0bacd5c438cb459fdf531eff00ab18422a00] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86 bad
[7c0141591fcf92ddc96a4ee04e35783a15bd68c8] [ALSA] virtuoso: monitor external power on D2X good
[b6cf160c4b788a31f6a4017a469b956ca77febf4] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 bad
[5de8b3acda2d03f8aeb21b5a267645088718c356] USB: CP2101 New Device IDs bad - dated 3rd Jan, but I think it was merged in the right timeframe
[f776c4cda449bab463f5388eb07bd63dc52e2b13] [NETFILTER]: ebtables: Update modules' descriptions bad
[e78c9d285709f535caae405f1da5b2936f51f0b5] b43legacy: fix MAC control and microcode init bad
[e1a9c9872dd004617555dff079b357a6ffd945e9] Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa good
[294d5cc233d81ec4aec77ebc60dc5752a3d0082a] Add schedule_timeout_killable - This appears to date from 6th December, and to have been merged around then.
Confused. Help ? Please ?
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