kernel-2.6.27-0.215.rc1.git4.fc10.i686 oops and no X :(

[Tom London]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:58:40PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:47:18PM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> > Kernel package changelog has entries like:
>> >
>> > * Sat Aug 02 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>> > - Fix locking in drm patches
>> >
>> > but that does not seem to be so far "it".
>> >
>>
>> I'll do a scratch build with DRM patches turned off so you can see if
>> the problems goes away.
>
> Thanks. FYI - kernel-2.6.27-0.226.rc1.git5.fc10.i686 from koji is
> even worse that all previous "rc1" I tried.  Instead of "just"
> killing X and crashing video it either locks up everything (no
> traces in logs) or reboots my machine after 'startx' from a console.
>
> More details at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457971#c1
>
>   Michal
>
I'm not sure why, but 0.226 is actually a bit better for me. But I
only get the "kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fops.c:144!", and the
resulting death of X ("black screen of death").

0.226 boots up to gdm (runlevel 5) with some frequency; I don't think
I got earlier ones to ever boot up to gdm. (I could get it to boot
most of the times by booting to runlevel 3, and then running
'startx').

I continue to track this issue here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457598

tom
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Tom London