Kernel hang with latest snapshot

David Boreham david_list@boreham.org
Wed Oct 11 08:42:00 GMT 2006


Li Guanglei wrote:

> The 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5-i686 debuginfo package is too big to download 
> for me :(. But I tried 2.6.18/i686, it works really well. Probing for 
> almost half an hour without crash the kernel.
>
Hi, perhaps there is an incompatibility between the current stap and the 
RH kernel.
I will see if I can make a stock kernel work (I'm assuming that's what 
you mean
by 2.6.18 above?).

>
> I also checked in some bugfix for LKET on i386. I tried to turn on all 
> probes(addevent.*) and it works ok. You can try the latest CVS and let 
> me know if you have any problem.

Hi, just tried the current cvs code. The compile error is gone. 
Unfortunately the kernel hang is still present :(

I may also try a 'real' machine vs a vmware instance.




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