Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem
On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote:
t>> My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs:
>>
>> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I
>> could be wrong
>
> Yikes. You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is
> any different from a regular 486. The devil IS in the details, and these
> older boxes are NOT regularly tested anymore.
According to http://www.vortex86.com/index2.html
Vortex86 family integrates a high-performance processor that
supports x86 instruction set with 3 integer units, 3-way
superscalar architecture, and a fully pipelined floating point unit.
Hmm. According to /proc/cpinfo on the installer,
> 1. Set up a serial console (to capture crash data);
> 2. Make sure you're in condition to lose data;
> 3. Reproduce the crash, log *everything* since boot.
What do you mean by "everything"? Every command? That's not hard. All
the kernel messages? That's harder... The logs in /var/log do not seem
to contain *anything* about the session during which the crash occurs.
> 4. File a bug on bugzilla.kernel.org with all relevant information. This
> does include the kernel config at the very least.
It's just the Debian stock kernel config.
> The box objected VERY HEAVILY to the ipv6 multicast operations trigerred by
> avahi.
Given this, can you think of another way I might be able to trigger
the bug? If so, I might be able to do it without needing to reinstall
the system every time.
> Without fixing the underlying bug, your box will be unusable (lots
> of other stuff are likely to trigger the same problem).
That's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the info, I'll see what I can do.
Cheers,
Jason
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