Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Automatic Kernel Bug Report | | From | Lee Revell <> | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:41:28 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 18:05 -0400, Daniel Bonekeeper wrote: > That's a good example. Another example: a little while ago > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/1/70) Daniel Drake from Gentoo was > reporting a problem where page_mapcount(page) was getting negative. As > it turned out, it was related with a nVidia proprietary driver that > the machine was running. With the system, we just needed to search for > "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)" on kernels 2.6.16.19 > (maybe too generic), and he would see that lots of people reporting > that has, between other things, nVidia drivers running. It's already a > clue on where to start looking for. The same applies for lots of other > stuff.
That sounds backwards to me - any kernel bug reporting system should immediately discard bug reports with the nvidia driver loaded, as such a kernel is not debuggable.
Lee
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