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

[Gary Thomas]

On 2011-09-10 10:28, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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...

To be clear, I updated master to 98c2da694ca4c72b3e222a593b8baddea102bde5 and rebuilt
my image (yesterday).  This image now crashes as reported.

What can I look at to help?

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