| Summary: | Kernel oops when starting x11-misc/wdm-1.28 on MIPS | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Karl-Johan Karlsson <creideiki+gentoo-bugzilla> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | MIPS Porters <mips> |
| Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | desktop-misc |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | MIPS | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Karl-Johan Karlsson
2005-11-06 07:16:35 UTC
Is it possible to run 2.6.14 on MIPS? There are required patches in sys-kernel/mips-sources, and that package doesn't have a 2.6.14 version. However, 2.6.14 is in the linux-mips.org Git archive, so perhaps it wouldn't be too difficult to make one. mips@gentoo.org should know more. Well, I must say there is a reason that this was never keyworded. I tested it a loooooooong time ago on an indy, and it didn't work there. Note that it didn't oops, but it just didn't work (I forget exactly what happened). Anything that causes a kernel oops like this is definitely an upstream kernel problem, as the kernel should *never* oops. Furthermore, it is possible that this oops is Octane specific, since each mips device is practically a separate arch with a lot of different code. Your best bet is probably to ask the linux-mips@linux-mips.org mailing list. However, you have made me curious. I'll give wdm another whirl on an indy, and perhaps my O2 as well. I'd really like all the display managers to work for us. Wdm seemed interesting because it was more functional than xdm, but not as bloated with deps as kdm and gdm (both of which work just fine on mips, by the way). Ok, I've confirmed this on ip22 (Indy). See http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/wdmoops.txt and http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/wdmstrace.txt for an oops and strace. I'm not sure what to say at this point. Note that I can only reproduce this oops when there is a server defined in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers. For now I would say to forget about using wdm, because this seems to be a problem with the linux-mips kernel tree. For what it's worth, I'm using linux-mips git 2.6.14-rc2-g54855a75 from a couple weeks ago or so. I, too, wanted WDM because it was the simplest DM I could find that used PAM, which is required since we use Kerberos. After compiling for two days I now run KDM (3.4.3-r1) instead, which seems to work fine. Should I report this to the linux-mips list, or will you do that since you can reproduce it yourself? Primarily a MIPS issue... Dead bug. |
