Bug#294826: [Evms-devel] Re: Bug#294826: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp: kernel panic in dm_snapshot.c

["Alexander N. Kogan" <alexander@kogan.nnov.ru>]

Hi!

> > It crashes again when snapshots were resetted several times. Please see
> > attached screenshot. Error occurs in line 1064 of dm-snapshot.c
>
> Ah, I see what's going on now. It's hitting the BUG statement in
> dm-snapshot.c::do_origin(), but EVMS provides a work-around for this issue.
> You should apply evms-2.5.1/kernel/2.4/dm-snapshot.patch to your kernel
> before using snapshots with EVMS. I'd also recommend reading over
> http://evms.sourceforge.net/install/kernel.html just to make sure you have
> all the DM kernel patches necessary for your system.
>
> Let me know if that works for you.

Thank you! I'll try these patches.

To debian kernel maintainers:
Are these patches in debian? Or may be it is better to patch debian kernel 
package?

-- 
Alexander Kogan
Auto Wave Processes Group
Institute of Applied Physics RAS