Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753446AbYLBUlH (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:41:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751268AbYLBUkz (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:40:55 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:39685 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbYLBUky (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:40:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:40:27 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Alejandro_Riveira_Fern=E1ndez?= cc: Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dmitry Baryshkov , Alistair John Strachan , "Michael B. Trausch" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7 In-Reply-To: <20081202204503.57363502@varda> Message-ID: References: <20081202131442.42e7df48@varda> <20081202165637.09984819@varda> <20081202194907.4eaffc0a@varda> <20081202204503.57363502@varda> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1272 Lines: 36 On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: > > Well i already sent the result of the revert on another mail; > it did not help :( Ahh. Oh, well. > I tried again with what i thought was my "good" commit and the > bug is there too :/ > > could it be that something changed in userspace[1] between the > day i installed the 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 and today that > make this bug trigger? Sure, that's possible. It happens occasionally with updated user-land binaries, especially system-related ones (eg something like X or SElinux or whatever). Or perhaps a configuration change meant that if you recompiled the "good" kernel, you now recompiled a different config? Or did you re-use the exact same kernel image you had originally? > Next step is try to find an "actually good" kernel and bisect > again sigh... 2.6.27.6 seems to work ok Ok, that's a much bigger bisection thing, but again, even just narrowing it down a bit will help. But check the configuration too before you start. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/