On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 05:47:37PM -0700, walt wrote:
> (I'm asking this question only because I'm curious about the problem I'm
> about to describe. I've already worked around it.)
>
> I updated the kernel in my gentoo virtualbox guest machine to 4.1.8 and
> got a kernel panic after rebooting the guest. (The panic was in the
> guest machine, not the host machine. Has anyone noticed how ambiguous
> our English language is?)
>
> Anyway, I rebooted the guest machine with vmlinuz.old (3.18.21) and
> then updated the guest to vanilla-sources-4.2.3 with no problems.
>
> (I omit several hours of confused reconfiguring/recompiling/rebooting
> because you really don't want to hear about them.)
>
> So, what is different or strange about kernel 4.1.8? Anyone have any
> problems with it on real hardware, or in other virtual environments
> like qemu, vmware, xen, etc?
>
I am running 4.1.8 on all my machines without any problems. Without
seeing the stack trace and/or other output from the kernel panic, I
would have no idea how to figure out what the problem was. I am also not
a kernel wizard, so I probably wouldn't be much help anyways.
Alec
