This is just a note that I won't be doing much, if anything, substantial for blfs in the next few days. Ideally, I would be using qemu to check for anything using qt5 static libs, and perhaps building (most of) the latest kf5/plasma for that. But because my main machine keeps crashing with 4.2-rc kernels iff I use qemu, I'm going to attempt to bisect the kvm changes in the kernel. I say 'attempt' because the problem might come from a totally unrelated commit, and in any case my test for a 'good' kernel will be "qemu, with the guest running Xorg and xscreensaver, did not lock the machine within 3 hours" which is unfortunately not a definitely reliable indication of "good".
On this subset of kernel commits, I will probably need to run 7 attempts, and then if a commit is identified, attempt to revert it for an eigth run. So, in practice this will take several days and may well produce no useful result. After the pain of some of the earlier crashes (in one case, my scripts supposedly built several Xorg protocol packages in the quest but nothing actually got installed, in another case I lost some work doing photo-editing in the gimp and ufraw on the host machine) I will not be doing anything important on this machine while the bisection is attempted. ĸen -- This one goes up to eleven: but only on a clear day, with the wind in the right direction. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
