On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 08:54:30 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Just as I thought I was getting on top of my Gentoo installation on a >> > MacBook, a new kernel oops unpleasantly, although it manages to boot into >> > a Gnome desktop eventually. No wireless is available (broadcom-sta >> > proprietary drive is used). Shutting down/rebooting is a hit and miss >> > operation. Invariably I have to hold the power button to force it to >> > shut down. Shutting the lid does not put it to sleep but goes into some >> > race condition with the fans spinning like mad. The screen is black >> > thereafter until I force it to shutdown. >> > >> > Previous kernel 4.4.9 had no such problems. >> > >> > I attach the log output. Please let me know if you want to see the kernel >> > .config too. >> > >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > Mick >> >> You could either try a more recent kernel, the current stable kernel >> upstream being 4.9.8. Chances are this oops may have been fixed there. >> >> Otherwise, you could report this oops to the Gentoo kernel devs with >> more info on where the oops happened supplied. See the >> oops-tracing.txt doc available here, >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/D >> ocumentation/oops-tracing.txt?id=refs/tags/v4.9.8, for details on how to do >> this. >> >> Hope this helps. > > Thanks Alexander, I emerged 4.9.8 and it now boots fine, shows no oops and > shuts down without any drama. :-) > -- > Regards, > Mick
Good to hear. Thanks for letting us know.
