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
