[elrepo] kmod-tpe crashes

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
> 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

Please go ahead and open a new bug and include all the details from
this thread. The attached screenshot will do for now.

Akemi