Re: Oops + crash in 2.6.0-test11

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Sun Nov 30 2003 - 19:14:23 EST


On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] szonyi calin wrote:

> Hi
> I was watching tv with tvtime and reading lkml on yahoo mail
> (with opera
> if matters). I decided to start xawtv instead of tvtime because
> tvtime
> looked like it was skiping frames.
> So i pressed the q key in tvtime and with the tvtime window
> dissapeared
> also the xterm window from which it was started. I tryed to
> start xterm
> but the xterm window mapped quickly and then dissapeared. I
> switched to
> my syslog VT and noticed an oops. I couldn't start a new shell
> nor from
> console nor from X (starting a new shell gave me a segfault or
> an oops)
> I couldn't shutdown cleanly (i had to use sysrq)
>
> Attached are the program versions, config, dmesg (from syslog)
> and oopses.

How reproduceable is this? Can you try with the following kernel config
options enabled? I'm suspecting the bttv driver.

CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y

Thanks

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