[yocto] kernel panic when boot core-image-sato-sdk for qemux86

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 09:21 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2011-09-10 07:13, Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On 2011-09-09 17:09, Zhang, Jessica wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Has anybody ran into kernel panic when boot up core-image-sato-sdk for qemux86. I’ve been having this issue with several clean build for two days. And my latest build tree is a
> >> freshly cloned tree against poky-master with commit:
> >>
> >> commit 20dbf0024385eaef61a04d8773fd7640e3c8cc6d
> >>
> >> Author: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> >>
> >> Date: Fri Sep 9 19:07:40 2011 +0100
> >>
> >> The qemu kernel panic messages are:
> >>
> >> INIT: version 2.88 booting
> >>
> >> Init[1]: segfault at 38 ip 495076c7 sp bfd9b60c error 4 in libc-2.13.so[49492000+15f000]
> >>
> >> Init[1]: segfault at 16 ip 0804b3c7 sp bfd9b280 error 4 in init.sysvinit[8048000+7000]
> >>
> >> Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> >>
> >> Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.0.4-yocto-standard+ #1
> >
> > Verified - fails for me here as well. A Bruce said, a build from just a few days
> > ago did work. Note: I only tried core-image-sato
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the only packages that were rebuilt since my last go on
> > Aug 31 were virtual/kernel & perf
> >
> > Looks like it's something to do with kernel changes.
> >
> 
> Actually, I forgot that qemux86 also uses i586 packages, so there were quite a
> few other packages changed since Aug 31.  You can see the lists at
>    http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/qemux86-rpms
> 

I've just tested qemux86 and qemuarm images and both of these were fine
(apart from pango issues which I locally reverted the change in question
for). I'm a little puzzled why things are therefore failing for people
but I would like to get to the bottom of it...

Cheers,

Richard