panic when running acroread on recent -CURRENT/amd64

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:53:37 +0400):

> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:38:37 +0200 Divacky Roman wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 04:05:30PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > > On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:48:25 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > > Quoting Divacky Roman <xdivac02 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz> (Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:41:18 +0200):
> > > 
> > > > > 1) I can fix this (its trivial) and wait what else will cause panic
> > > > > 
> > > > > 2) I can port MI emuldata stuff to amd64 (but I cannot test it) and this
> > > > > should fix all these panics like the one you are seeing
> > > > > 
> > > > > 3) I can say "amd64 linuxolator is broken now pls wait"
> > > 
> > > > Forget about 3), either 2) or 1).
> > > 
> > > I'd vote for 2).
> > > 
> > > Roman, I have an amd64 machine to test your patches.
> 
> > www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/~xdivac02/amd64.patch
> 
> > pls tell me if this works (it WONT work with 2.6 kernel because we lack the MD parts)
> 
> OK, I managed to test the patch on -current amd64. So far I tried
> acroread, linux-firefox and linux-opera. All of them are core dumping
> when start. It's a little bit better than without the patch when the
> system just reboots.

Then the patch seems to work. The coredump is because of a different
bug. If you want to help debugging it, you should coordinate with jhb@
(it requires to add some printf()s to the kernel).

> What should I do further?
> 
> BTW, after applying the patch I did only make kernel. Seems that it's
> enough. How can I do it faster? Maybe compile/install a linux kernel
> module?

Yes, loading it as a module with speed it up. You could unload/load it
then.

Bye,
Alexander.

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