rvalles wrote:
Hi Edward.
Since a week or two ago, I've been unable to upgrade my gentoo in the
old desktop, the machine where I have reiser4 with ccreg... up until
today, I had thought it was some broken upgrade (I use gentoo testing)
or something, and didn't care much, thinking "I'll fix that eventually".
Today, some sentence at the irc room by <dusanc> struck me:
"does anyone have any idea if reiser4 could break python for me? When I
switch from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23 or 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 python scripts just exit
to python prompt >>>, and when I switch back everything works OK. SAme
config was used."
So we can see that Dushan encountered this problem in
2.6.24-rc2-mm1, which doesn't contain new reiser4 stuff
(like vfs-fixup and discard-entd patches).
It seems that bisecting search is the most reasonable way
to find the problem. It can be a changeset which reveals
some obscured bug in reiser4 like this one:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/28/218
Thanks,
Edward.
Which is exactly the same problem I'm suffering. (I run emerge and get a
prompt)
So, since my 2.6.22.14 had patches from you:
- reiser4-vfs-fixup.patch
- reiser4-2.6.22-discard-entd.patch
I thought it might be related to those. Indeed, it is. I boot my
previous 2.6.22, which has a plain reiserfs-2.6.22-2, and the problem
dissapears, so it _must_ be due to one of those two patches (which I
believe you merged into the later 2.6.23 and mm patches, which dusanc is
using).
Just do doublecheck, I booted the problematic kernel again, and tried
"emerge" again, getting a >>> prompt... and then I looked at dmesg, it
seems this bug causes no log output.
This is the forum thread in Gentoo that I opened back when I first had
the problem:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-622022.html
At least now we know it's somehow related to one of those two patches.
Feel free to contact me for any testing needs.
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