Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:23:35 -0700 | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: system gets stuck in a lock during boot |
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Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Justin Mattock wrote: > > >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Steven Rostedt<rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:49:06PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:42:21AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>>> >>>>> I posted already and had no reply, >>>>> I cannot boot my system with the latest git >>>>> >>>>> seems to be stuck in some lock: >>>>> > > BTW, it does not look like it got stuck in a lock. The backtrace shows > that it paniced inside event_create_dir due to a bad pointer. > > >>>>> [ 0.655640] [<ffffffff81440c33>] panic+0x84/0x129 >>>>> [ 0.655883] [<ffffffff81063f96>] do_exit+0x84/0x67e >>>>> [ 0.656125] [<ffffffff81445044>] oops_end+0x9c/0xb7 >>>>> [ 0.656368] [<ffffffff81044a6c>] no_context+0x200/0x223 >>>>> [ 0.656611] [<ffffffff81442d3d>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x226/0x249 >>>>> [ 0.656848] [<ffffffff81044c36>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1a7/0x1e1 >>>>> [ 0.657097] [<ffffffff81442b01>]? mutex_unlock+0x1c/0x32 >>>>> [ 0.657097] [<ffffffff811ce094>] ? inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x533/0x5be >>>>> [ 0.657579] [<ffffffff81443ee0>] ? _spin_unlock+0x1c/0x32 >>>>> [ 0.657822] [<ffffffff81044c91>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0x2a/0x40 >>>>> [ 0.658066] [<ffffffff811ce149>] ? selinux_d_instantiate+0x2a/0x40 >>>>> [ 0.658309] [<ffffffff8144687d>] do_page_fault+0x192/0x2dd >>>>> [ 0.658549] [<ffffffff814444cf>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30 >>>>> [ 0.658791] [<ffffffff8120e856>] ? strcmp+0x17/0x46 >>>>> [ 0.659040] [<ffffffff810b9ca0>] event_create_dir+0x49/0x37b >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ouch... >>>> >>>> I've never seen such panic. Could you send me your config, hopefully >>>> I could reproduce it? >>>> >>> Send me the config too please. >>> >>> -- Steve >>> >>> >>> >> yeah this happens with rc6 but not with rc5. >> >> The system is a linux from scratch build >> x86_64 I used these flags for building everything: >> >> CFLAGS=" -m64 -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -mfpmath=both -O2 -pipe >> -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="{-j3}" >> >> also: I have a macbook(not x86_64) that is running rc6 that seems >> to be fine.(I can double check). >> >> attached is .config, dmesg as well. >> > > BTW, how did you get the dmesg? Is it from a clean boot? > > Since it works fine in -rc5 but breaks in -rc6, could you do a git bisect > on it? It shouldn't take too long. > > Thanks, > > -- Steve > > well grub2 sure works o.k. the new gfxload is pretty good. problem is the screen just says [Linux-bzImage etc.....] and that's it. (was hoping to make the font smaller to reveal the bug).
at this point the only choice I have is to undo commits until I hit the right one.
Justin P. Mattock
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