[elrepo] kmod-tpe crashes

[Nick Howitt]

On 04/07/2018 18:18, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Following a thread I saw here I am using kmod-tpe in VM in Virtualbox. The
>> VM is ClearOS 7.5 beta so is running kernel 3.10.0-862.3.2.v7.x86_64 and I
>> am getting intermittent kernel dumps on bootup. More often than not boot
>> goes OK, but a number of times I get a kernel panic. Unfortunately I can
>> only get an image of the frozen panicked screen as I don't know how to do a
>> serial dump from VB to the PC. I'll attach the image and hope you get it.
>>
>> What is the best approach on this? If it is the right site,
>> https://github.com/cormander/tpe-lkm seems very quiet.
>>
>> Nick
> The maintainer of kmod-tpe (Phil) is in close contact with Corey
> Henderson (cormander). Phil is away now but will be back in a couple
> of days. In the meantime it would help if you file a bug report at
> http://elrepo.org/bugs so that we can track it there. I am not sure if
> the ClearOS kernel is 100% binary compatible with RHEL though. What
> was the last kernel version that worked?
>
> Akemi
Afaik, the ClearOS kernel is an el7 kernel patched for IMQ only. It does 
mean I have to recompile all the Elrepo sources because your compiled 
ones don't work on ClearOS - I've been doing that for years for the NIC 
drivers. I only recently started using tpe and only on a play VM which 
is not often on. I had no problem with any of the 7.4 kernels, but get a 
fair number of crashes with the 7.5 kernel. It has just crashed now as I 
booted up to check something before writing the e-mail, but the VM then 
worked on a reboot. I'm just registering an account to file a bug. The 
annoying thing is that I can't get a text dump; just a screenshot and I 
can't scroll back. I believe there is a way of enabling a serial port 
and redirecting the output there but I don't know the details.

Nick