Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v1 08/26] docs: reporting-bugs: make readers check the taint flag | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Sat, 3 Oct 2020 10:47:21 -0700 |
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On 10/3/20 2:56 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Many thx for you comments. Consider all the obvious spelling and > grammatical mistakes you pointed out fixed, I won't mention all of them > in this reply to keep things easier to follow. > > Am 02.10.20 um 19:08 schrieb Randy Dunlap: >> On 10/1/20 1:39 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>> +driver, VirtualBox, or other software that installs its own kernel modules: you >>> +will have to remove these modules and reboot the system, as they might in fact >>> +be causing the issue you face. >> You will need to reboot the system and try to reproduce the issue without loading >> any of these proprietary modules. > > Hmmm. Preventing the Nvidia module from loading without disabling or > uninstalling the other parts of the graphics driver can easily to a > situation where the GUI is not starting. And blacklisting all modules > that VirtualBox needs on the host requires quite a bit of tying at the > boot loader iirc. So how about this: > > Quite a few kernels are also tainted because an unsuitable kernel module > was loaded. This for example is the case if you use Nvidia's proprietary > graphics driver, VirtualBox, or other software that installs its own > kernel modules, as they might be causing the issue you face. You thus > have to prevent those modules from loading for the reporting process. > Most of the time the easiest way to do that is: temporarily uninstall > such software including any modules they might have installed. > Afterwards reboot.
Sure, OK.
thanks. -- ~Randy
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