Is anyone else having kernel problems?

[Geert Janssens]

I have now answers to this problem, but I crosspost this to the Linux 
PPC mailing list (linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, archives on 
http://lists.linuxppc.org), since I know Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh) 
sometimes reads this list.

I believe it might be in a better position than most yellowdog linux 
users to answer your questions here.

Cheers,
Geert

Stephen J. Sanders wrote:
> Murias,
> I tried 2.4.19-pre7-ben0 and had to give up on it.  I didn't have
> the problem of being dumped into the debugger, but I started to see
> some VERY strange behaviors in using automake and libtool--for longer
> programs I kept getting messages about bad libtool archives and other
> errors that suggested that an internal system buffer might be getting 
> overwritten, although this latter is speculation on my part.Switching
> back to the default YDL 2.2 kernel fixed the problems.
> ...steve
> 
>> The below was originally posted about a month ago.  So I figured that 
>> maybe by a months time something might be worked out.  Well, I just 
>> compiled the 2.4.19-pre7, compiled very nicely. even booted.  Once it 
>> got to the console login.... it dumped me into the debugger. so close... 
> 
> 
>> has anyone figured out how to get this kernel to work as of yet?
> 
> 
>> Murias
> 
> 
> 
>>>> I've been having real problems with kernels lately - so much so that 
>>>> I yhink it needs to be flagged for users.  Specifically, for late 
>>>> 2.4.17 thru 2.4.19 kernels:
>>>>
>>>> - a number of the 2.4.19pre kernels fail to build
>>>> - several, including benh versions have been unstable
>>>> - a couple failed to boot (dropping into the debugger at cron or 
>>>> swapper tasks)
>>>> - one created a filesystem error
>>>> - another started spewing garbage out of the imap socket after a week
>>>>
>>>> This is BAD and can only make people very wary of Linux in general.  
>>>> Does anyone know the status of work to iron these problems out?  My 
>>>> system is a 9600 with PowerLogix processor upgrade booting from SCSI 
>>>> but running Linux 
>>>
>>
>>> from an IDE RAID array off a Sonnet card.
>>
> 
>>>>
>>>>  Iain
>>>
>>
> 
> 
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