On Saturday, 24 of November 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 24 November 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce this with: > > > > * VirtualBox 1.5.2 from http://www.virtualbox.org > > (VirtualBox-1.5.2_25433_fedora7-1.i586.rpm) > > > > * Fedora 7 with kernel-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 as a host OS > > > > * Fedora 8 with vanilla 2.6.24-rc2 as a guest OS > > (using the kernel config posted by you) > > > > so right now I suspect either a problem somehow specific to your system > > (narrowing it down using git-bisect to a specific kernel commit would > > greatly help) or a weird gcc bug (please make sure that you are using > > non-buggy/up-to-date gcc version). > > Thanks for looking at the issue Bartlomiej. > > I started a bisect yesterday and suddenly found I could not reproduce the > issue anymore. Today I tried again and _did_ manage to reproduce the issue > again, but only with a 24-rc3 kernel, not with 24-rc1 or 24-rc2 kernels. > And also only in combination with ata_piix and not with piix (one or the > other blacklisted). Also, after I changed the setup of the VM (changed > default boot medium from CD-ROM to hard disk), the kernel that failed > suddenly booted correctly. > Both of these (module used and boot order) could explain why I could not > reproduce the issue yesterday. > > After I changed the boot order back I could reproduce the BUG again, but > seemingly completely random for 24-rc1, 24-rc2 and 24-rc3: sometimes a > kernel boots fine, other times it fails. It may be related to way the > system is shut down, but I'm not sure of that. > > My conclusion is that the base cause is probably an issue somewhere in > VirtualBox, but I suspect there is also something not 100% clean in the > kernel code (if only a missing sanity check). Especially since I've never > yet been able to reproduce it with a kernel before 2.6.24-rcX. > > However, as it seems there are various variables involved and I cannot be > confident that I can reliably reproduce the issue with different kernels, I > do not really see any point in trying to bisect this. > > I suggest closing #9442 in bugzilla as it does not seem worth tracking this > as a regression. Closed. Thanks, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
