This is the first time I've posted to this forum. Usually when I have a
problem with a kernel other people are having the same problem and it gets
fixed relatively quickly. But I've been experiencing some problems that
haven't been going away. If more information is needed then what I have
given here please let me know. I am using a SOYO K7VTA-B with a VIA 82C686B
chipset and a Duron 750mhz processor.
1. Cannot mount IDE-SCSI cd drive. This problem has been mentioned
previously by others. Errors occur when trying to mount it.
2. When ACPI support is installed the kernel gives a "Keyboard not found"
error when booting and I have to push the reset switch to reboot. This
problem has also been mentioned before but I don't think anyone has related
it to the ACPI support.
3. Starting sometime after kernel 2.5.1 (I couldn't compile any kernels
from then up until 2.5.5) the Evolution email program locks up whenever
Calender, Tasks, or Contacts is selected. I have to go to another terminal
and kill it.
4. Starting with kernel 2.5.6 (kernels 2.5.5 through 2.5.6-pre3 work) the
KDE program krecord closes right after it starts.
5. With the new ALSA routines built-in is it possible to get the midi
output port on a Soundblaster PCI 512 to work? I haven't been able to get
it to function yet.
Thank you in advance for your help
David Macbanay
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> 4. Starting with kernel 2.5.6 (kernels 2.5.5 through 2.5.6-pre3 work) the
> KDE program krecord closes right after it starts.
Interesting. last few lines of strace output may show up what's going on.
Can you do a before/after strace on a working & non-working kernel?
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> 3. Starting sometime after kernel 2.5.1 (I couldn't compile any kernels
> from then up until 2.5.5) the Evolution email program locks up whenever
> Calender, Tasks, or Contacts is selected. I have to go to another terminal
> and kill it.
Oh, and does this still apply to 2.5.10 ?
Again, last few lines from an strace to find out what its doing when it locks
up may be useful.
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Dave Jones writes:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > 4. Starting with kernel 2.5.6 (kernels 2.5.5 through 2.5.6-pre3 work) the
> > KDE program krecord closes right after it starts.
>
> Interesting. last few lines of strace output may show up what's going on.
> Can you do a before/after strace on a working & non-working kernel?
>
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> | SuSE Labs
Here's what shows in kernel 2.5.10. I'm using a Soundblaster PCI 512 and I
have ALSA support for it installed.
gettimeofday({1019717263, 731947}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 4 6 7], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [6 7], left {0, 0})
read(7, 0x809fa74, 8192) = -1 EBADFD (File descriptor in bad
state)
dup(2) = 8
fcntl64(8, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(3, 1), ...}) = 0
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0)
= 0x40014000
_llseek(8, 0, 0xbffff5e4, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(8, "read sound: File descriptor in b"..., 41read sound: File
descriptor in bad state
) = 41
close(8) = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 4096) = 0
_exit(1) = ?
Here's what shows in kernel 2.5.6-pre3 until I pressed control-C.
gettimeofday({1019718466, 876979}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 4 6 7], NULL, NULL, {10, 631024}) = 1 (in [7], left {10,
600000})
read(7, "\377\377\1\0\377\377\2\0\2\0\376\377\376\377\0\0\375\377"..., 8192)
= 8192
gettimeofday({1019718466, 922638}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0]) = 0
gettimeofday({1019718466, 923415}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 4 6 7], NULL, NULL, {10, 584588}) = 1 (in [7], left {10,
540000})
read(7, "\0\0\377\377\0\0\6\0\2\0\377\377\1\0\3\0\376\377\375\377"..., 8192)
= 8192
gettimeofday({1019718466, 969320}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x541b, [0]) = 0
gettimeofday({1019718466, 970109}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 4 6 7], NULL, NULL, {10, 537894} <unfinished ...>
David Macbanay
Dave Jones writes:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > 3. Starting sometime after kernel 2.5.1 (I couldn't compile any kernels
> > from then up until 2.5.5) the Evolution email program locks up whenever
> > Calender, Tasks, or Contacts is selected. I have to go to another terminal
> > and kill it.
>
> Oh, and does this still apply to 2.5.10 ?
> Again, last few lines from an strace to find out what its doing when it locks
> up may be useful.
>
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> | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs
Here's the last lines from the strace output until had to kill it from
another terminal. And this occurs in any kernel from 2.5.5 through 2.5.10.
It may have happened before that also but I wasn't able to compile any
kernels after 2.5.1 up until 2.5.5.
David Macbanay
select(19, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18], NULL, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18], NULL) = 1 (in [15])
read(15, "GIOP\1\0\1\0008\0\0\0", 12) = 12
read(15, "\0\0\0\0\4\366\377\277\1\0\0\0\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0009\351"..., 56) =
56
writev(15, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\1\f\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4},
{"\4\366\377\277\0\0\0\0", 8}], 4) = 24
select(19, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18], NULL, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18], NULL) = 1 (in [17])
read(17, "GIOP\1\0\1\0004\0\0\0", 12) = 12
read(17, "\0\0\0\0\364\366\377\277\1\0\0\0\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0009\351"..., 52)
= 52
writev(17, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\1\f\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4},
{"\364\366\377\277\0\0\0\0", 8}], 4) = 24
select(19, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18], NULL, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18], NULL) = 1 (in [17])
read(17, "GIOP\1\0\1\0008\0\0\0", 12) = 12
read(17, "\0\0\0\0\364\366\377\277\1\0\0\0\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0009\351"..., 56)
= 56
writev(17, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\1\f\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4},
{"\364\366\377\277\0\0\0\0", 8}], 4) = 24
select(19, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18], NULL, [5 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18], NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted)
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > 4. Starting with kernel 2.5.6 (kernels 2.5.5 through 2.5.6-pre3 work) the
> > KDE program krecord closes right after it starts.
>
> Interesting. last few lines of strace output may show up what's going on.
> Can you do a before/after strace on a working & non-working kernel?
That one likely is a known bug in the ALSA OSS emulation, Takashi
recently fixed it.
Gerd
===== sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c 1.4 vs edited =====
--- 1.4/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c Mon Mar 18 16:21:13 2002
+++ edited/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c Wed Apr 17 12:00:55 2002
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
if (ret < 0)
break;
}
- ret = snd_pcm_lib_read(substream, ptr, frames);
+// ret = snd_pcm_lib_read(substream, ptr, frames);
if (in_kernel) {
mm_segment_t fs;
fs = snd_enter_user();
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 02:24, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > 3. Starting sometime after kernel 2.5.1 (I couldn't compile any kernels
> > from then up until 2.5.5) the Evolution email program locks up whenever
> > Calender, Tasks, or Contacts is selected. I have to go to another terminal
> > and kill it.
>
> Oh, and does this still apply to 2.5.10 ?
> Again, last few lines from an strace to find out what its doing when it locks
> up may be useful.
>
I would like to confirm this bug on 2.5.8, 2.4.x is ok, I have to try
2.5.10 yet ...
Tommy
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On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 00:58, Tommy Faasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 02:24, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:58:14PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > 3. Starting sometime after kernel 2.5.1 (I couldn't compile any kernels
> > > from then up until 2.5.5) the Evolution email program locks up whenever
> > > Calender, Tasks, or Contacts is selected. I have to go to another terminal
> > > and kill it.
> >
> > Oh, and does this still apply to 2.5.10 ?
> > Again, last few lines from an strace to find out what its doing when it locks
> > up may be useful.
> >
> I would like to confirm this bug on 2.5.8, 2.4.x is ok, I have to try
> 2.5.10 yet ...
I have been aware of this bug since about 2.5.5. It is still present
in 2.5.10. I have been attempting to gather more useful debugging
information. So far, I haven't come up with anything that points
clearly to the problem.
Regarding using strace to identify the bug, it should be noted
that Evolution uses multiple processes that all communicate with
the shell process (evolution). The process that handles access
to much of Evolution's storage for the most of the Evolution
components is called wombat.
My plan is to run "strace wombat", "strace evolution-mail" and
"strace evolution-addressbook" in separate terminal windows.
The evolution process can then be started normally.
My observations so far lead me to suspect a problem with
wombat. If any of you other Evolution uses would care to
help me with this testing, please do!
Thanks,
Miles
Hi!
> error when booting and I have to push the reset switch to reboot. This
> problem has also been mentioned before but I don't think anyone has related
> it to the ACPI support.
Try acpi list.
> 3. Starting sometime after kernel 2.5.1 (I couldn't compile any kernels
> from then up until 2.5.5) the Evolution email program locks up whenever
> Calender, Tasks, or Contacts is selected. I have to go to another terminal
> and kill it.
Try strace to see what it does before it dies.
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On 27 Apr 2002 11:32:46 -0700,
Miles Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>My plan is to run "strace wombat", "strace evolution-mail" and
>"strace evolution-addressbook" in separate terminal windows.
>The evolution process can then be started normally.
What state are the tasks in when it hangs, S, R, D, N, T, what? I have
an intermittent problem on 2.4 where an entire process group goes into
T state even though nothing is tracing it. Killing the offending
process then sending SIGCONT to the rest of the process group restarts
the group. The offending process is usually the last one on the tree.