Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10586] New: High Number of Segfaults onMacBookStartingWith 2.6.24.5 Kernel

[Ryan Roth]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:57:51 -0700 Ryan Roth <ryanroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:36 -0700
> > > Ryan Roth <ryanroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Since this last boot I have only got these:
> > > >
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3112]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > > > > sp 7fff4712c870 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > > > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3116]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > > > > sp 7fff2959cce0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > > > > May 1 16:26:25 kernel: gnome-power-man[3119]: segfault at 0 ip 410fda 
> > > > > sp 7fffc7671db0 error 4 in gnome-power-manager[400000+47000]
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > OK.
> > >
> > > Well I don't know what the heck to do about that.  It could be that we've
> > > gone and changed the contents of (say) an acpi /proc file, and this happens
> > > to cause your particular version of gnome-power-manager to take a different
> > > (and buggy) codepath, so it crashes.  Or something like this.
> > >
> > > I hate to do this to you, but our best hope for getting to the bottom of
> > > this is for you to run a git bisection search to find out what we did which
> > > triggered this.  http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some
> > > instructions.
> > >
> > > Or you could go the other route and work out where and why
> > > gnome-power-manager is crashing.
> > >
> > > You could try upgrading (or downgrading) your gnome-power-manager version,
> > > see if that affects things.
> > >
> > > Does the problem affect only gnome-power-manager?
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > OK it looks like I was possibly (probably) barking up the wrong tree.  I 
> > was able to get gnome-phone-manager to give me some useful information 
> > and it turns out that gnome-power-management crashes if 
> > gnome-phone-manager is running first (which I had set to autorun) 
> >     
>
> heh, thanks, I wish they were all that simple.
>
> It'd be useful to go back to 2.6.24 and check that the same effects are
> seen there with the same userspace setup.
>
>   
> > something to due with bluetooth errors.
> >     
>
> Well..  bluetooth isn't exactly our shining example of kernel technology
> I'm afraid.  If you do suspect there are kernel problems in there please be
> sure to cc linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on the email.
>
>
>   
I'm pretty sure it's an issue with bluez, thanks for all help.
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