[driverloader] kernel oops on X11 shutdown with stk16 kernel

[Jonathan Baron]

On 10/03/04 08:00, Rich Ibbotson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm having some difficulties getting driverloader running on my Fedora
>Core 2 system.  Actually, it's not the driverloader code that is the
>problem, it's the "stk16" kernel that I'm using to get around the 4k
>stack restriction in the FC2 kernel.
>
>The problem:
>When I boot using the 2.6.8-1.521.stk16.i686 replacement kernel, running
>in runlevel 5, all is well until I log out of a kde session.  At that
>point, instead of getting a graphical login screen, the X server crashes
>and I see a kernel oops. I've included the relevant bits of
>/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log below.
>
>Note that I am not sure whether or not this is due to the 4k/16k patch.
>I've built a kernel from the sources for 2.6.8-1.521 (from Fedora Core
>2) with only the change to disable 4 GB kernel-space/user-space vm
>support (no 16k stack patch), and I see slightly different problems -
>sometimes an oops at logout, sometimes a system freeze when I log in
>graphically, sometimes it works fine.
>
>Any ideas?  I've tried building a custom kernel starting from the stk16
>source but re-enabling 4G/4G virtual memory - the resulting kernel
>doesn't even boot.  Last thing I see is "Uncompressing Linux... OK,
>booting the kernel".

With Fedora Core 2 and the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel (the latest),
driverloader works for me WITHOUT using a modified kernel (either
custom or the stk16 from Linuxant).  You might try that.  I did
do the following:

dldrconfig --enable-workaround=stack

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Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
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