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i'll check it out.  i'm compiling ksymoops now, is there a way to get it to
work without a static libbfd?  all i've got is a libbfd.so, and i'm going to
need to recompile binutils if i must have a libbfd.a.

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Your stack trace isn't symbolic (see Documentation/oops-tracing.txt), so
> it's impossible to debug, but it's already interesting information to
> see that it seems to be either loopback of vfat.
>
> Can you test some more? In particular, I'd love to hear if this happens
> with vfat even without loopback, or with loopback even without vfat
> (make an ext2 filesystem or similar instead). That woul dnarrow down the
> bug further.

thanks!

joe

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