ULE nice bugs are fixed.

[Scott Long]

Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:04:16PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Steve Kargl wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> >>
> >>>Line 303 and 647 of ffs_snapshot.  Change the 
> "td->td_ksegrp->kg_nice = x"
> >>>to "sched_nice(td->td_ksegrp, x);"  let me know if that fixes it (it
> >>>will).
> >>>
> >>
> >>The above with the additional of sys/sched.h fixes
> >>the panics I have had.  Unfortunately linux-mozilla
> >>still silently reboots my laptop.  I'm assuming that
> >>the linux-mozilla problem is signal related.
> >
> >It just spontaneously reboots?  Can you start it from a console so 
> you can
> >get into ddb when it panics?  Does this panic with sched_4bsd?
> >
>
>
> linux-mozilla appears to work with 4BSD.  With ULE, the machine
> freezes about 6 seconds after I start linux-mozilla, then 90
> seconds later it reboots.  There is no message written into
> /var/log/messages.  I tried running ktrace, but ktrace did
> not write out the trace file before the reboot.  I need to
> mount /proc and try truss.  Also, I load linux.ko and
> linux.procfs at boot.
>

Files like /var/log/messages won't contain anything useful when the
kernel panics.  Your best bet is to set up a serial console.

Scott