Re: Bug#347933: 2.6.15-2-686: kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:252
On 01/24/06 09:56:26PM +0100, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
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> maximilian attems wrote:
> > reassign 347933 lufs-source
> > stop
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
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> >
> >>I reopen this bug because I have the same bug but no Nvidia card.
> >
> >
> > you only posted only parts of your trace,
> > no evidence that your favorite proprietary crap is not loaded.
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> Maybe... but I find very easy to reject a bug just because an Nvidia driver
> is loaded. Anyone who is able to read an oops backtrace should see that it's
> not nvidia related (and google can also help).
> As you seem to work in the kernel team I assumed that you were...
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> That's against Debian's interests to have bugs closed like this.
>
It's also against kernel developer's interests to chase bugs that might
only exist in some binary blob for which they can't see the source. Once
the nvidia module is loaded into the kernel it can do anything it wants
to any part of memory, overwrite a page or two of memory here and there
and you could very easily get a backtrace that has no mention of the
nvidia driver but was definitely caused by it. The fact that the oops
says Xorg is the current process is an even bigger reason to ignore this
bug if it can't be reproduced with an untainted kernel. It's not like it
takes a huge amount of work to reboot and run X without the nvidia driver.
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ludovic Drolez.
>
Jim.
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