Re: Kernel relinking crashes since 7.9

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 06:41:33PM +0000, Terry Cocksworth wrote:
> Ah. I see. In my defence they have been running from 7.5 through 7.8 with no
> issues at all, until I sysupgraded to 7.9, which is the only actual crime I
> am guilty of.
> 
> I'll just move along then, and for now I'll solve it by "brute forcing" each
> relinking until it succeeds - they eventually do if I just try over and over.
 
You could ktrace the ld call and try to identify what error triggers this.
The kernel relink is run a lot and it seems only your VMs show this
problem so please invest some time to diagnose what is going on.
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> From: Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 18:28
> To: Terry Cocksworth
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Kernel relinking crashes since 7.9
> 
> Terry Cocksworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > These VMs are indeed "compact". I don't really know what's enough and
> > what's too small starting with 7.9, but these VMs are pretty light IMO.
> 
> Nor do we.
> 
> Anways, you created the problem, you get to fix it.
> 
> 

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:wq Claudio