Bug#551804: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686: Booting with PAT enabled crashes kernel in OpenGL apps

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:48:17PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Bram Senders wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Okay, this problem seems way more involved dan I thought it was...  I
> > don't know whether it is related to OpenGL or Java (which Processing,
> > the app/framework I am using to test this stuff, is written in), but it
> > seems unrelated to enabling PAT or not.  I kept a little log of the
> > kernels I tried, with and without PAT, the apps I tried (Processing and
> > Armagetronad, the first other OpenGL app I could think of) in that
> > session, and the result.  See here:
> > 
> > 1. 2.6.30, PAT on (tried this a couple of times)
> >         Processing:     kernel crash
> > 2. 2.6.30, PAT off
> >         Processing:     works fine (tried for an hour or so)
> > 3. 2.6.31, PAT on
> >         Processing:     apps don't run, I get strange Java tracebacks
> >                         about "Target VM failed to initialize"
> >         Armagetronad:   works fine (tried for five minutes)
> > 4. 2.6.30, PAT off
> >         Processing:     kernel crash
> > 5. 2.6.31, PAT on
> >         Processing:     kernel crash
> > 6. 2.6.26, no PAT support
> >         Armagetronad:   works fine (played whole match)
> >         Processing:     works fine (tried for an hour or so)
> > 7. 2.6.31, PAT off
> >         Processing:     kernel crash
> > 8. 2.6.26, no PAT support
> >         Processing:     got the following error while running an app:
> 
> sorry for the late followup how does latest 2.6.32-8 behave for your
> tests?

Bram,
did you test a current 2.6.32 kernel?

Cheers,
        Moritz