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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Chris Rankin' <rankincj@gmail.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Does 6.5 kernel require different userspace to 6.4 kernel?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:31:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8203b5a266964ca2a2238faf372a8229@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2bqVLVfBOGcj326grzz2b2PMcTmuj44a5yhWh1H1Z9ch3JCA@mail.gmail.com>

From: Chris Rankin
> Sent: 10 December 2023 19:08
> 
> I have a truly ancient i586/UP/32 bit PC (for historical reasons) that
> happily runs Linux 6.4.16. However, when I tried to upgrade it today
> to run Linux 6.5.13, I discovered that both its console and its
> networking froze almost immediately after it had booted. There is no
> sign of any oops in any of the logs. My first thought was that memory
> corruption had crashed the kernel, except that the SysRq interface
> still works correctly.

If you can run with a serial console you should be able to
get a traceback of all the kernel stacks.
That ought to be informative.

	David

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-10 19:07 Does 6.5 kernel require different userspace to 6.4 kernel? Chris Rankin
2023-12-13 16:31 ` David Laight [this message]

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