>
>
> On 5/12/2007 4:17 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Temporarily at
> >
> >
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/
> >
> > Will appear later at
> >
> >
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/
> >
> >
> > - Lots of device IDs have been removed from the e1000 driver and moved over
> > to e1000e. So if your e1000 stops working, you forgot to set CONFIG_E1000E.
> >
> > - The s390 build is still broken.
>
> I'm seeing this most incredibly unhelpful (to debug) but fortunately
> reproduceable problem (so far 4/4 times) on this -mm kernel. I thought this
> problem may have been related to another bug which I have reported (A TCP oops)
> but even after applying a likely fix for that I am still seeing this problem.
>
> The machine boots up perfectly fine and runs good until I load it up.
> In this case I can reliably cause this to occur by pulling a 3G ISO across the
> GigE network from my Linux box to my PC. After maybe 50M or so, the console
> just displays this (ignore initial boot banner):
>
> ----------
>
> * Starting local ... [ ok ]
>
>
> This is tornado.reub.net (Linux x86_64 2.6.24-rc4-mm1) 00:24:01
>
> tornado login: *** buffer overf
>
> -------
>
> Yes - after displaying the 'f' in what I can only guess is the word 'overflow',
> the box spontaneously reboots. There is no further console output until it
> starts to come back up again.
>
> The problem does not exist in 2.6.23-gentoo kernels nor in a vanilla
> 2.6.24-rc4-git6 (phew!), so this looks to be an -mm only problem at this stage.
>
> I enabled a number of kernel debugging options but then I got no output at all
> when the machine crashed.
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to which subsystem this might be coming from, so I'm
> not sure who to CC.
>
> Box information is (still) up at
http://www.reub.net/files/kernel/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/
>
