Re: UML error - apps killed 50% of the time

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:54:20PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> From my other message I am trying to get a UML kernel running again after 
> an OS upgrade, but I am unable to get it working again (on the original 
> machine this time, everything is 32-bit.)
>
> When I boot the kernel normally I get tons of error messages, but if I 
> boot it with "init=/bin/bash" I can get a command prompt up.  
> Unfortunately most of the time my apps break:
>
> $ ls
> bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  mnt  opt  proc  root  sbin  
> sys tmp  usr  var
> $ ls
> Killed
> $ ls
> bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  mnt  opt  proc  root  sbin  
> sys tmp  usr  var
> $ ls
> Killed
> $ ls
> Killed
> $ ls
> bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  mnt  opt  proc  root  sbin  
> sys tmp  usr  var
>
> What's going on?  My host dmesg says things like this:
>
> vmlinux[6300] general protection eip:b7ea5124 esp:1785bdfc error:0
>
> Why doesn't UML work any more?  It's running the same filesystem and apps 
> as before.  Any help would be much appreciated, I've wasted hours on this 
> now :-(
>

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/79358/

Does this patch help?

Thanks.
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