Bug 21827

Summary:	xargs: environment is too large for exec message on boot up in 2.5.70-mm1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Bevitt <andrewbevitt>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	ebuild tarball

Description Andrew Bevitt 2003-05-28 08:19:04 UTC

This is a fairly trivial issue and seems to only apply to 2.5.70 kernel users,
but here is a ebuild tar ball that patches the xargs source to stop the error on
boot.

Reproducible: Only on 2.5.70 kernels. Always

Steps 
1) emerge mm-sources-2.5.70-r1 (or other)
2) compile kernel and reboot.

Patch fixes
Stops arg_max being limited to 20 * 1024 and hence allows a larger environment.

Comment 1 Andrew Bevitt 2003-05-28 08:19:45 UTC

Created attachment 12497 [details]
ebuild tarball

Comment 2 Guy 2003-05-28 22:13:01 UTC

This is also a problem with vanilla-sources 2.5.68 on my work machine. I didn't know 
enough to be able to provide useful information so didn't report it. Also, since I'm using 
vanilla-sources, I've already been referenced to kernel.org for reporting kernel 
problems.

Comment 3 Norberto Bensa 2003-05-30 02:17:28 UTC

and with kernel 2.4.20... Are you guy using baselayout 1.8.6.8-r1 ??

Comment 4 Andrew Bevitt 2003-05-30 02:59:06 UTC

I for one am using that version of baselayout yes. 
I just recompiled the kernel with an earlier version and then reversed the patch on my sources. 
The result was still the same. Im going to try mm-sources-2.5.70-mm2 now and see what 
happens,

Comment 5 Narada Sage 2003-06-04 06:51:04 UTC

The issue is discussed very briefly here on the forums and applies to baselayout.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55496

Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-11 15:05:17 UTC

please try out the patch in bug #22637

Comment 7 Andrew Bevitt 2003-06-11 16:44:18 UTC

Yes that patch works also, the only thing is that here you are only avoiding the issue at boot 
time, the xargs error also occurs during running of several applications that will not read 
settings from bootmisc.

Comment 8 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-06-27 14:25:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21438 ***