Blaisorblade wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:59, Christopher S. Aker wrote: >> Blaisorblade, >> >> I recently deployed a 2.6.18-skas3-v9-pre9 host, and some users weren't >> able to boot UML beyond "VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly". >> As it turns out, only 2.6-um kernels were affected, 2.4-um worked fine. >> >> This happened both in skas3 and skas0 modes. Jeff graciously took a >> look at some straces, and his comment was that "something broke page >> fault handling generically". >> >> The traces are here: >> >> http://www.theshore.net/~caker/uml/skas2.6.18-uml_trace.txt (skas3) >> http://www.theshore.net/~caker/uml/skas2.6.18-uml_trace_skas0.txt >> >> Reverting back to a skas3-v8.2 kernel fixed it. > > An important question: you reverted to a 2.6.18 + skas kernel or a 2.6.17 > one? > A similar bug is being discussed about a regression in 2.6.18 vanilla...
Uh, somehow I missed this email for two months... All my hosts are running at most 2.6.16.x, so this very well could be a regression in post 2.6.16 kernels. -Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
