Jazz' Oops.
wouter@jazz:~$ ps aux | grep [k]swapd root 4 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr26 63:19 [kswapd] <defunct> wouter@jazz:~$ dmesg | tail -n 23 Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list (from 000e4416). Negative d_count (-1) for sparc32/soft-fp Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Oops: 00000000 PC: [<00027c16>] SR: 2004 SP: 043f9f24 a2: 043f8000 d0: 0000002d d1: 00000001 d2: 04181f50 d3: fffffbd5 d4: 000001af d5: 00140d6c a0: 00000014 a1: 0000003a Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=043f9000) Frame format=7 eff addr=043f9f4c ssw=0485 faddr=00000000 wb 1 stat/addr/data: 0005 00027c0e 0010e024 wb 2 stat/addr/data: 0085 00000000 00000000 wb 3 stat/addr/data: 0005 00000000 00000000 push data: 0010e024 ffffffff 01d33ae0 04181fb0 Stack from 043f9f8c: 01b97300 00000001 00027da8 04181f50 00000001 00000005 00000030 00000005 00000001 00000002 043f8000 00002000 04371830 00191ff8 00028070 000005d9 ffffffff 00000020 00019740 00000005 00000030 00000000 00000005 00000000 000197f6 00000030 00002980 000029b4 00000000 Call Trace: [<00027da8>] [<00002000>] [<00028070>] [<00019740>] [<000197f6>] [<00002980>] [<000029b4>] Code: 265f 285f 4e75 2f0c 2f0b 286f 000c 41ec 0018 b1d0
That's bad, right?
I guess I'll have to reboot it when I get anywhere near it. In the mean time, I've had to shut down its buildd, since not running kswapd is wreaking havoc with the load on jazz. And while I'm at it, might try to install 2.6 on the box, too, see whether that works yet.
Only that has a different set of issues; it doesn't seem to be possible to generate initrd images for 2.6 kernels while you're running 2.2. And I'm not compiling my own kernels; Debian's kernels are just fine. If I can get them to work. Suggestions, anyone?
Yaird needs a mounted /sysfs at build time to generate an initramfs. You want to use initramfs-tools. For a comparasion maintained by both maintainers look at http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions
afaik klibc had still some issues, also need to push latest upstream once out of new. an strace on #334917 or even better an porters machine access would help. regards