Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Anytime and subscribed :). That may even be an RC as full ipv6 was a > release goal of squeeze. Also, if it really was corrupting your It is clearly something that requires testing on UP, probably on a i486 to reproduce (otherwise, our kernels would b

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 12:52, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Anytime and subscribed :). That may even be an RC as full ipv6 was a > release goal of squeeze. Also, if it really was corrupting your > filesystem, I would think that would be a "critical" RC. That's harder to assert, I think. My FS got corrupt

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/14/2010 12:32 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. > > Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 > > My real solution t

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 My real solution to all of this was to disable IPv6 altogether. Thanks everyone for the help :) (Also, I learnt about a do

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 09:57 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the >> experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a >> fix

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the > experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a > fix when it can be backported from a newer upstream. Interesting, no crash with 2.6.36-rc6-486. I'll

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 08:58 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > So where should I report it, debian kernel bug tracker or upstream bug > tracker? I figured the former, since it's not a bleeding edge kernel > I'm running, but maybe I'm wrong. > > Cheers, > Jason I wo

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 06:35, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Disabling support for ipv6 can actually be done via a kernel parameter, > so recompiling to remove ipv6 support should not be needed. Use the > kernel parameter "ipv6.disable=1". Yep, disabling IPv6 stops the crash! So where should I report it,

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > >> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I > >> could be wrong > > > > Yikes.  You really need to track this one down,

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris writes: > To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to > building a kernel exactly the same as what's in > linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? I'm on a PC with amd64 arch, so I created a > i386 chroot: I have personally used http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebia

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 22:35, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > The person responding indicates a kernel problem, which makes sense when > you actually get a kernel panic as a result. This was also indicated on > this list. I'm trying to figure out if there's a simpler way to trigger it, but haven't really f

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/13/2010 05:16 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > Before I go off to bugzilla, I just want to check that I've actually > got debugging information here, since to me it doesn't look that > different. Do I need to boot with a special kernel arg? Looks like this bug was reported on the avahi upstream mai

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 3. Reproduce the crash, log *everything* since boot. Before I go off to bugzilla, I just want to check that I've actually got debugging information here, since to me it doesn't look that different. Do I need to boot with a special ker

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 14:45, Jason Heeris wrote: > To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to > building a kernel exactly the same as what's in > linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? More RTFMing required on my part, sorry. In the DEBIAN.Readme for the linux-image source package: Each

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 19:49, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jason Heeris writes: >> Yay. I'll build one on my PC. > > Ah. To save me more trouble, can anyone tell me what the key is to building a kernel exactly the same as what's in linux-image-2.6.32-5-486? I'm on a PC with amd64 arch, so I created

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: >> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I >> could be wrong > > Yikes.  You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is > any different from a reg

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris writes: > Yay. I'll build one on my PC. Ah. >> Qemu defaults to X. Copying the system image to some machine that runs >> X is probably the safest solution, you can then run qemu without any >> extra privileges.. > > Done, but avahi-daemon installs without a hitch (presumably because

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 15:59, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Jason Heeris writes: >> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 > Please install linux-image-2.6.32-5-486-dbg There is no such package: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-image+dbg&searchon=names&suite=testing§ion=all Yay. I'll build one

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
[please keep this on the list] Jason Heeris writes: > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Please install linux-image-2.6.32-5-486-dbg > Qemu won't start, it can't find a framebuffer: > > (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed > --> No such file or directory Qemu defaults

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 23:44, Jochen Schulz wrote: > [ I guess Henrique's interpretation of the problem is better than mine, >  I just wanted to follow-up on this specific question. ] >> How would I know? > > $ dmesg | grep "Write cache" > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, d

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jason Heeris writes: > Should I recompile it with any kind of debugging information enabled, > or does the Debian kernel already contain it? It depends on the architecture and debian version. Please post a proper bug report with reportbug that shows all the relevant version information. Can you m

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
On 12 October 2010 10:59, Jason Heeris wrote: >> 4. File a bug on bugzilla.kernel.org with all relevant information.  This >> does include the kernel config at the very least. > > It's just the Debian stock kernel config. Should I recompile it with any kind of debugging information enabled, or do

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 10:11 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: 2010/10/12 Ron Johnson: My 1st thought was whether you need IPv6... Well, no, and if I can't sort this out then I'll recompile without it and see if the crash goes away (or... can I black list it, or is IPv6 Sure. http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/10/

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
2010/10/12 Ron Johnson : > My 1st thought was whether you need IPv6... Well, no, and if I can't sort this out then I'll recompile without it and see if the crash goes away (or... can I black list it, or is IPv6 compiled right in?). But this might be a good opportunity to find a bug before I go dow

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 09:59 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: [snip] The box objected VERY HEAVILY to the ipv6 multicast operations trigerred by avahi. Given this, can you think of another way I might be able to trigger the bug? If so, I might be

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: t>> My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs: >> >> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I >> could be wrong > > Yikes.  You really need to track this

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs: > > CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I > could be wrong Yikes. You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is any different from a regular 486.

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 03:03, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Any tips on catching it? Will there be useful info in a log somewhere? > > It *could* have made it to /var/log/syslog, but I am not particularly > optimistic about that. No, I had checked that already. :/ > May be. Do you have write caching enabl

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-10 Thread Jason Heeris
On 10 October 2010 21:43, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Looks like a kernel panic or a kernel oops. Seeing the start of it would > be helpful. Any tips on catching it? Will there be useful info in a log somewhere? > That looks like your filesystem is damaged beyond what one could expect > from a single