Re: 2.4.10 crashes hard when starting X.

Carl-Johan Kjellander (carljohan@kjellander.com)
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:16:06 +0200


Jan Harkes wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:32:38AM +0200, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:
>
>>When I tried 2.4.10 my machine crashed really hard upon starting the
>>Xserver, not even alt-sysrq-SU worked, but alt-sysrq-B did reboot the
>>machine. I've been trying divide and conquer to find out which kernel
>>that crashes my machine from 2.4.8 and 2.4.10.
>>
> ...
>
>>Modules Loaded binfmt_misc tuner tvaudio bttv microcode pwcx pwc
>> usbmouse nfs lockd sunrpc autofs 8139too ipchains vfat fat ntfs es1371
>> ac97_codec soundcore mousedev hid usb-uhci usbcore
>>
>
> Hmm, usbmodules loaded, I reported earlier to l-k that a patch that went
> into include/linux/list.h was causing USB related oopses.
>
> In list_del the second line (entry->next = entry->prev = 0) is evil.
> Remove that line and rebuild the kernel & modules and maybe...

2.4.10-pre8 doesn't have that line and today I got lockup with -pre8 as well.
This happened when the daily cronjobs were running.

So far:

2.4.8 works fine
2.4.9 works fine
2.4.10-pre8 crashes when updatedb or tripwire runs.
2.4.10 crashes hard upon X startup.

/Carl-Johan Kjellander

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