Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752887Ab1BCHDX (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 02:03:23 -0500 Received: from smtp2.it.da.ut.ee ([193.40.5.67]:38029 "EHLO smtp2.it.da.ut.ee" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752377Ab1BCHDW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 02:03:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:03:20 +0200 (EET) From: Meelis Roos To: John David Anglin cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults In-Reply-To: <20110203022420.A73F54E7B@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Message-ID: References: <20110203022420.A73F54E7B@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (SOC 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 605 Lines: 15 > If aptitude fails consistently, it should be possible to debug or > isolate to a particular kernel change. Usually, SMP segvs don't > provide much information as to the cause of the problem. strace > output and a gdb backtrace would be useful. It's not failing consitently - it's in different places. I'm bisecting now. -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee) -- 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/