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    SubjectRe: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently
    Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:42:58PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
    >
    >> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:32:36 +0000 Sid Boyce wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>> ...
    >>>
    >> There's not a lot of docs out there.
    >>
    >> The man-page: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html
    >>
    >> Linus's email doc:
    >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
    >>
    >> I worked on something over last weekend, but it doesn't really add
    >> much to the references above.
    >> ...
    >>
    >
    >
    > FWIW:
    > My standard instructions for users who are asked to bisect are [1]:
    >
    >
    > <-- snip -->
    >
    > # install git and cogito on your computer
    >
    > # clone Linus' tree:
    > cg-clone \
    > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
    >
    > # start bisecting:
    > cd linux-2.6
    > git bisect start
    > git bisect bad 86a71dbd3e81e8870d0f0e56b87875f57e58222b
    > git bisect good ac98695d6c1508b724f246f38ce57fb4e3cec356
    >
    > # start round
    > cp /path/to/.config .
    > make oldconfig
    > make
    > # install kernel, check whether it's good or bad, then:
    > git bisect [bad|good]
    > # start next round
    >
    >
    > After at about 8 reboots, you'll have found the guilty commit
    > ("... is first bad commit").
    >
    >
    > More information on git bisecting:
    > man git-bisect
    >
    > <-- snip -->
    >
    >
    >
    >> ~Randy
    >>
    >
    > cu
    > Adrian
    >
    > [1] the start and end commits and the number of reboots are variable,
    > but the rest of the text is generic
    >
    >
    Kernel built and installed, so I shall have something to report in the
    next couple of days.
    Regards
    Sid.

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