2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

[Jurriaan]

Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'

I am willing to try which patch between 2.5.58 and 2.5.59 caused this,
but I can't find out how to extract these patches. If I browse the
linux-2.5 repository on the web-interface @ bitkeeper, I don't see a
message 'And with this patch-set, we've reached 2.5.58 - any patches
after this apply to 2.5.58 and will create 2.5.59 in due time'.

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/BK-usage/ seems to focus more on uploading
patches. There is something on getting the diff between two kernel
versions, but I need finer patches/revisions/changesets. I can see how
to download the initial tree, but what do I do next?

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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Re: 2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

[Andrew Morton]

Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
> patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
> right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
> 
> I am willing to try which patch between 2.5.58 and 2.5.59 caused this,
> but I can't find out how to extract these patches. If I browse the
> linux-2.5 repository on the web-interface @ bitkeeper, I don't see a
> message 'And with this patch-set, we've reached 2.5.58 - any patches
> after this apply to 2.5.58 and will create 2.5.59 in due time'.
> 
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/BK-usage/ seems to focus more on uploading
> patches. There is something on getting the diff between two kernel
> versions, but I need finer patches/revisions/changesets. I can see how
> to download the initial tree, but what do I do next?
> 

I've been regularly snarfing the rollups from 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/
for this very purpose.

Over at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/x/

You will find 15 patches, spread across the lifetime of the 2.5.58->2.5.59
cycle.

If you can identify which of those patches introduced the failure...

Re: 2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:42AM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
 > Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
 > patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
 > right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'

Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
disabling those first.

		Dave

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| SuSE Labs

Re: 2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

[Duncan Sands]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 13:33, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:42AM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
>  > Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
>  > patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
>  > right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
>
> Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
> disabling those first.

Do you have a K6-2?  I know of two K6-2 400MHz boxes that freeze at the
same point with recent (2.5.58-2.5.59, maybe 2.5.57) kernels.

Ciao,

Duncan.

Re: 2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:51:00PM +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:

 > > Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
 > > disabling those first.
 > 
 > Do you have a K6-2?  I know of two K6-2 400MHz boxes that freeze at the
 > same point with recent (2.5.58-2.5.59, maybe 2.5.57) kernels.

Nope. mobile P3 and mobile Athlon respectively.

		Dave

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Re: 2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ?

[Jurriaan]

From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Date: Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:33:40PM +0000
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:42AM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
>  > Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
>  > patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
>  > right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
> 
> Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
> disabling those first.
> 
I didn't use them. I was busy checking out where between cset-943 and
cset-944 it stopped booting, when I accidentally removed my .config
file. I recreated it from the one I posted earlier to lkml, and suddenly
all 2.5.59 kernels boot. I don't know if I'm glad it's solved or
irritated that I don't know how it was solved.

Anyway, 2.5.59-mm8 boots here just fine.

Thanks everyone!

Jurriaan
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