In article <m3mz9w9wmx.fsf@picovex.com>, Bucky Katz  <bucky@picovex.com> wrote:
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>I've been configuring kernels for a new development board in the
>evbarm tree, and in the process, have come across what appears to be
>a bug in iostat code.
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>The as-configured system works fine, until I try to take it to
>multiuser. At that point, it panics in kernel strncpy because
>iostati_getnames has passed it a null pointer as the source argument.
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>The attached patch cures the symptom, but I think it's a band aid
>rather than a solution.
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>I looked around the iostat related code a bit, and it looks as if a
>system that has no possible disk drives will see this behavior, but
>I'm not sure what the right final fix is.

I am about to commit a change which might fix your problem as a side effect.

christos