RE: [OOPS 2.4.0-test2] Reproducable, good looking, probably apmd (is the same as oops while starting with debian)

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

> Russell King writes:
> > Soeren Sonnenburg writes:
> > I reported this before but not as detailed, so maybe
> > someone knows to
> > deal with it...
>
> > >>EIP; c0148bf4 <proc_permission+64/f4>   <=====
>
> This is *exactly* what I was chasing down last night on the ARM
> architecture.  In this case, it was caused by:
>
> 	kernel_thread(xxxx, NULL, 0);
> 				  ^ - should be
> 				CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND
>
> This was in the ARM-specific code, so the problem I found is not
> exactly the same as yours.

I do not know whether there is something equivalent in the i386 tree...

> Basically, there is a process running in your kernel which has no
> knowledge of a root filesystem.  I don't see anything common between
> kernel_thread() and your kernel messages to suspect any others
> in the generic kernel tree - maybe its a result of a patch
> you applied?

No. The oops (or a lot of them when standard booting) happens with
'clean' 2.4.0-test1-ac18+ up to test2 (was at least not in test1-ac10 I
mean not that reproducable). I do not know when it was broken...

And there are others who encountered it eg (debian is running on his
system too):

====quote on====
> I am running Debian (Woody) as well and have multiple OOPSen as well.
I don't get any
> lockups, just lots of nasty messages. I read the Changes file and saw
no clue there. The
> programs will start fine after login, just not from the startup
scripts...except chrony, which is a
> guaranteed OOPS, but I don't really need that prog, so I just got rid
of it. I know this does not
> help much, except to say that you are not the only one.
>
>
> Glenn C. Hofmann
====quote off====

(this is what happens when using start-stop-daemon to start programs ->
oops)

I am no kernel hacker, I simply do not in which part of the kernel the
bug is in...

Regards,
Soeren.

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