Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:58:48 -0700
"Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com> wrote:

> Ok, the kernel that I now have booting is 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 + my
> pata_pdc2027x patch + the 3 hotfixes that I saw when I started trying
> to build the kernel (i.e. without git-scsi-target-fixup but with the
> other 3 that are now present).
> 
> During boot of my Debian sarge system, this kernel always gives this
> warning at "Starting MTA:"
> http://static.flickr.com/47/158326090_35d0129147_b_d.jpg

That's the mysterious lockdep warning - I'm not sure we've got to the
bottom of that.


> Then, a minute or two after boot, it usually (well over 50% of the
> time, but not quite 100%) gives this oops:
> http://static.flickr.com/51/158326091_6a7057834c_b_d.jpg
> 
> If it doesn't fail with that oops, it usually tends to fail with other
> oopses (I have not managed to capture any of those, but they all seem
> to mention network-related stuff). Once, it just froze up without an
> oops. The oops I posted happens often enough that it's probably
> unjustifiably difficult to try reproducing the other oopses until this
> one is fixed or worked around.

Damn, sorry.  LLC is completely borked.  You should emphatically set
CONFIG_LLC=n.

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