From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE37413888F for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 00:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F24ACE085D; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 00:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C58F1E07DD for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 00:57:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjGYr-0008SX-NK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:56:57 +0200 Received: from 64.69.39.103 ([64.69.39.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:56:57 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 64.69.39.103 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 02:56:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using kernel 4.1.8 in a virtualbox guest machine? Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:56:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20151005175653.17fa8ff2@a6> References: <20151004174737.639750e0@a6> <20151005005901.GB6134@greenbeast> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.69.39.103 X-Archives-Salt: b8b9366f-b7fd-4ba2-8641-dea269498656 X-Archives-Hash: 5f41494709485a69237694320f188e64 On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 20:59:01 -0400 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 05:47:37PM -0700, walt wrote: > > (I'm asking this question only because I'm curious about the > > problem I'm about to describe. I've already worked around it.) > > > > I updated the kernel in my gentoo virtualbox guest machine to 4.1.8 > > and got a kernel panic after rebooting the guest. (The panic was > > in the guest machine, not the host machine. Has anyone noticed how > > ambiguous our English language is?) > > > > Anyway, I rebooted the guest machine with vmlinuz.old (3.18.21) and > > then updated the guest to vanilla-sources-4.2.3 with no problems. > > > > (I omit several hours of confused > > reconfiguring/recompiling/rebooting because you really don't want > > to hear about them.) > > > > So, what is different or strange about kernel 4.1.8? Anyone have > > any problems with it on real hardware, or in other virtual > > environments like qemu, vmware, xen, etc? > > > I am running 4.1.8 on all my machines without any problems. Without > seeing the stack trace and/or other output from the kernel panic, I > would have no idea how to figure out what the problem was. I am also > not a kernel wizard, so I probably wouldn't be much help anyways. Okay, thanks. Just by chance, Fedora (which I also run in vbox) updated to kernel 4.1.8 today and I had no trouble with it, so I'll use their kernel config file in my gentoo guest machine to compile 4.1.8 and see if that fixes the panic. Experiments are fun :)