Re: hwclock failure in x86.git

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Kevin Winchester wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Kevin Winchester wrote:
>>> My first time building and booting the mm branch of x86.git was pretty
>>> successful.  The only error I noticed was the following in my dmesg:
>>>
>>>  hwclock[622] general protection ip:804b226 sp:bff43e30 error:0
>>>
>>> I'm not sure exactly how to debug this.  I could bisect, but there seems
>>> to be some useful debug information in there, so there might be
>>> something better to try first.
>>>
>> That's a userspace IP; it implies the userspace hwclock binary did 
>> something bad, or the kernel didn't permit it to do something it should 
>> have.  The best thing to do would probably to strace hwclock and see 
>> what it did when it died.
>>
> 
> Unfortunately, but the time I can get a chance to run hwclock, the
> problem seems to have fixed itself.  I tried booting into single user
> mode, but `/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh restart` succeeds once I have my prompt.
> 

The other thing you can do is to download the debug information and 
source code for hwclock from your particular distro, and find out 
exactly what operation inside the hwclock binary is triggering the segfault.

The only other option is to bisect.

	-hpa