Official thread: "zen-sources" - Part II

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termite · Post by **termite** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:52 pm

ok. I'll wait for zen1. I'm now stuck on 2.6.24-rc7-zen1, as I've had issues with the newer ones. The one I'm on now keep throwing scheduler warnings in kern.log, which is annoying, but not the worst thing in the world.

Anyway, waiting for zen1

Nick C · Post by **Nick C** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:51 pm

hmmm, does anyone else have any problems with the .24 release and uses a thinkpad t43? For some reason nothing since 2.6.23-kamikaze4 seems to work on my t43, everything boots up fine but hardlocks a few seconds to a minute after X and gdm load up. The worst bit is ive tried to find where the problem is and had no luck, cant find any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg. Anyone have any suggestions as to how i can try and track this down?

If anyones able to help, my .23-kamikaze4 config is here: http://pastebin.ca/873463
and my current .24-zen-sources config is here: http://pastebin.ca/873465

Waninkoko · Post by **Waninkoko** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:06 pm

Everybody who compiled latest master-devel: tell me if it compiled fine and works fine, if it's stable enough I'll merge it into master (2.6.24-zen1).

aronparsons · Post by **aronparsons** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:23 pm

Is the 'Boost Privileged Tasks' patch still included? It doesn't seem to be present in .24-rc7-zen2. Applying it manually brings back the responsive X I've gotten used to.

Dottout · Post by **Dottout** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:35 pm

Miguel: wow, great, now we have CONFIG_VIDEO_EM28XX

I cannot reboot atm, if I'll find out some issues I'll post them

tranquilcool · Post by **tranquilcool** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:52 pm

kernelOfTruth wrote:
Dottout wrote:
kernelOfTruth wrote:
Dottout wrote:with latest patches reiser4 is much more responsive here. /me happy
++

but that's not the only improvement:

thanks to Edward, kde4 now also works, and few other small glitches I had (e.g. launching of acroread, weird behavior, ...) are all gone, it seems

reiser4 FTW !

those who consider trying out reiser4 should give cryptcompress with lzo1 (mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,compress=lzo1 /dev/foo) a try
it's rock solid (reiser4 has matured a lot in the meantime), blazing fast, uses much less space than other filesystems and seems to do very well to harddrives (very silent)
does compression affect fs performance and cpu usage?
what hardware-specs do you have ?

please can you say what is the /etc/fstab line to mount compressed reiser4 /dev/foo?

gimpel · Post by **gimpel** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:05 pm

On current master-devel:

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  CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c:8,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:4:
include/linux/sched.h:1006: error: duplicate member 'rcu_read_lock_nesting'
include/linux/sched.h:1007: error: duplicate member 'rcu_flipctr_idx'
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

I tried "make clean" and "git reset --hard" etc.

EDIT: Fixed that, but tons of other errors too. I'll do a fresh git clone.

Waninkoko · Post by **Waninkoko** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:16 pm

I'm fixing it. I'm going to push a new master-devel.

Dottout · Post by **Dottout** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:23 pm

I have also this one

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  CC      mm/filemap.o
mm/filemap.c: In function ‘wait_on_page_bit’:
mm/filemap.c:541: error: storage size of ‘reason’ isn’t known
mm/filemap.c:542: error: implicit declaration of function ‘set_latency_reason’
mm/filemap.c:547: error: implicit declaration of function ‘restore_latency_reason’
mm/filemap.c:541: warning: unused variable ‘reason’
mm/filemap.c: In function ‘__lock_page’:
mm/filemap.c:602: error: storage size of ‘reason’ isn’t known
mm/filemap.c:602: warning: unused variable ‘reason’
make[1]: *** [mm/filemap.o] Error 1
make: *** [mm] Error 2

sorry if you are already aware of it

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:53 pm

please can you say what is the /etc/fstab line to mount compressed reiser4 /dev/foo?

(memo to myself: don't use quote pyramides, otherwise mods will lock this thread

)

mount -o noatime,nodiratime /dev/foo /mountpoint

(just like with other reiser4-partitions

)

Waninkoko · Post by **Waninkoko** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:06 pm

New (and fixed) master-devel pushed. Try it now

Dottout · Post by **Dottout** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:09 pm

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Auto-merged drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

is there an official way to avoid these errors?

Waninkoko · Post by **Waninkoko** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:48 pm

git fetch origin; git checkout -b new origin/master-devel; git branch -M new master-devel

Dottout · Post by **Dottout** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:55 pm

Waninkoko wrote:git fetch origin; git checkout -b new origin/master-devel; git branch -M new master-devel

ty, this post is my new bible

edit: I had to delete master-devel branch for this to work (git checkout master ; git branch -D master-devel ; `your_code`)

mroconnor · Post by **mroconnor** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:36 am

If I have been using the layman overlay for zen-sources what is the best way to switch to using straight git and the master-devel branch? Just follow the it how-to?

Cheers

Dottout · Post by **Dottout** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:54 am

progresso: do a git clone git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/zen-sources.git, chose your favourite branch and follow updates with git pull

mroconnor · Post by **mroconnor** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:00 am

Thanks Dottout! That's what I thought but figured I would ask anyway.

On another unrelated note I was able to get rid of that ati-driver issue I was having by rm -rf'ing the lib/module directory for the zen kernels that had the missing symbol problem and recompiled and everything is dandy.

cheers!

thubble · Post by **thubble** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:18 am

2.6.24-rc7-zen2 hangs on bootup (while initializing disks) with SMP enabled. With SMP disabled it works fine. This is on a Core 2 Duo. I'll try master-devel and see if that fixes it.

mroconnor · Post by **mroconnor** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:24 am

Did someone say that master-devel-rt and ati-drivers do not get along? I think it was Kerneloftruth but I can't remember.

higon · Post by **higon** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:16 am

So zen-sources-2.6.24 seems out. With no change in kernel configuration file from my previous running zen-sources-2.6.24-rc7, I emerged, genkerneled, and am running it just fine on my Dell Latitude 610 now (USB Blootooth on, Wireless on, USB on, IP6 on, and Sound works.) Nothing changed. Nice work. Thanks. :

thubble · Post by **thubble** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:45 am

Trying to compile master-devel, it looks like a bad patch merge:

drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c +77

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<<<<<<< HEAD:drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c

        if (!netif_running(dev))
                goto done;
=======
>>>>>>> 522dddb81e91af8dfd8176bc77dc37b95d8b94af:drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c

Deleting that entire section makes it compile, not sure if it works (done: isn't defined). I'll let you know if this one boots...

thubble · Post by **thubble** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:55 am

Current master-devel still hangs on boot with SMP enabled.

HecHacker1 · Post by **HecHacker1** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:12 am

Nick C wrote:hmmm, does anyone else have any problems with the .24 release and uses a thinkpad t43? For some reason nothing since 2.6.23-kamikaze4 seems to work on my t43, everything boots up fine but hardlocks a few seconds to a minute after X and gdm load up. The worst bit is ive tried to find where the problem is and had no luck, cant find any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg. Anyone have any suggestions as to how i can try and track this down?

If anyones able to help, my .23-kamikaze4 config is here: http://pastebin.ca/873463
and my current .24-zen-sources config is here: http://pastebin.ca/873465

I recently had hard lockups with Xorg and it turned out to be due to Xorg 1.4 and the synaptics driver.

So far I haven't seen other posts about the issue, but I assume that synaptics and Xorg 1.4 don't work together.

I am downgrading to Xorg 1.3 right now... hopefully that fixes the issue.

MostAwesomeDude · Post by **MostAwesomeDude** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:55 am

HecHacker1 wrote:
Nick C wrote:hmmm, does anyone else have any problems with the .24 release and uses a thinkpad t43? For some reason nothing since 2.6.23-kamikaze4 seems to work on my t43, everything boots up fine but hardlocks a few seconds to a minute after X and gdm load up. The worst bit is ive tried to find where the problem is and had no luck, cant find any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg. Anyone have any suggestions as to how i can try and track this down?

If anyones able to help, my .23-kamikaze4 config is here: http://pastebin.ca/873463
and my current .24-zen-sources config is here: http://pastebin.ca/873465
I recently had hard lockups with Xorg and it turned out to be due to Xorg 1.4 and the synaptics driver.

So far I haven't seen other posts about the issue, but I assume that synaptics and Xorg 1.4 don't work together.

I am downgrading to Xorg 1.3 right now... hopefully that fixes the issue.

I had this problem too. Most recent synaptics and libsynaptics fixes it.

tranquilcool · Post by **tranquilcool** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:18 am

kernelOfTruth wrote:
please can you say what is the /etc/fstab line to mount compressed reiser4 /dev/foo?
(memo to myself: don't use quote pyramides, otherwise mods will lock this thread )

mount -o noatime,nodiratime /dev/foo /mountpoint

(just like with other reiser4-partitions )

very many thanks!

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