Kernel 2.4.20 with skas crashes with user-mode-linux
Hello
I've recently updated an AMD Duron machine to the new debian unstable
kernel (I've installed the debian unstable kernel-sources-2.4.20
version -8 package, patched that with the debian skas kernel patch,
and compiled it manually with my usual .config).
The box ran fine, I started a uml instance (the first time with skas
support in the host kernel) with the standard debian image from the
uml website, set up tap0 networking, then dit 'apt-get update;
apt-get upgrade' inside uml, it began downloading, but then the whole
box froze. Not entirely, it would still answer to pings, and I could
switch virtual terminals on the console (and iirc even type in root
enter, but then nothing would happen).
Has anyone experience with uml on debian? Is the debian uml software
too old? Is there a more serious problem in debian's 2.4.20? (skas is
the only modification I've made to the kernel, and the skas patch is
very small; if a user process can take down the machine, something
must be broken, and if it's not the skas patch, it's debian's newest
2.4.20-8 kernel; the machine never crashed for more than a year with
earlier kernels, though I never really used uml on it).
Christian.
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