Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:37:03 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:18:57PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This is the 4th one of these I've seen in the last two days. Any chance >> of being able to compile with -g and get an addr2line on the EIP? I've >> tried to reproduce it myself, but haven't gotten it to happen yet.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:32:08PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > seems fairly obvious what's happening with a couple of printks... > printk("visual_init: sw = %p, conswitchp = %p, currcons = %d, init = %d\n", > sw, conswitchp, currcons, init); > gets me the interesting fact that sw & conswitchp are both NULL. > later on, we call: > sw->con_init(vc_cons[currcons].d, init); > which seems like it would be the exact cause, no?
Ugh, I should have been able to see this somehow...
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:32:08PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > now whether putting a: > if (!sw) > return; > call into visual_init or whether we should determine earlier never to > call visual_init, I don't know. The people who know about the console > have been conspicuously silent so far...
To heck with waiting for them, if you can't boot because of it, I'd say push the patch.
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