On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote:
> >On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Joachim Holst wrote:
> >
> >> > What makes you (two) think the crashing is caused by anything AX.25
> >> > related? Do you see something AX.25 related in the Oops dump when it
> >> > happens? If so, what? Please give us something usable to work with. Find
> >> > the Oops in your system log and send it here for us to see or if your
> >> > machine freezes before anything gets written in the log then write the
> >> > Oops down and run it through ksymoops.
> >>
> >> From my side, it's a very loose guess. Since I didn't have this
> >> problem with older kernels 2.0.x and the old AX25 utils but I do now
> >> with new kernel and old AX25 utils, I found it quite natural to assume
> >> that it was related with incompatible AX25 utils.
> >
> >Well, I don't find that very natural at all. There are million other
> >things that changed in the kernel between 2.0.x and 2.2.x. It's actually
> >much more probable that the problem is elsewhere. BUT, if you can show us
> >an Oops trace (symbols resolved) with something AX.25 related then we can
> >start debugging...
> >
> >> The old ones don't
> >> compile on a 2.2.x kernel (at least not the last time I tried) and
> >> neither did the new AX25 libs. I know that newer versions have been
> >> released that do compile on a RedHat system (the reason why they
> >> didn't compile earlier, weas RedHat related).
> >
> >Installing the new lib/tools/apps is very simple and there are now even
> >RPMs available. Anyway if the problem turns out to be this (old utils)
> >then it still is a kernel bug. No usermode application should be able to
> >crash the kernel, even a faulty one!
>
> If i may stick my nose in, i would firstly take a _very_ close look
> at the way 2.2.x kernels are made, ie what you define in the
>
> # Console drivers <section>
>
> I fell into this pitfall, i got oopses strange colors on my screen
> lockups you name it i had it. The answer is very easy RTFM
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/*
>
> I'm not saying thats your problem, but one which will cause you grief
> if its defined improperly, i know i was there had that and finaly
> redfaced got it all going.
>
This might be my problem. I usually fire up menuconfig, activate the AX25
things in the kernel, recompile and install. RTFM doesn't come near me att
all. I fond that in 99.99% the kernel will compile, boot and run !
/Jocke!
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