Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:49:16 +0000 | From | Sid Boyce <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently |
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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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