From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc117-bre9.cable.ntl.com [213.105.88.117]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E044482A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:45:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id F4107B007; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:46:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:46:13 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: Christoph Plattner Cc: Matt Taggart , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Many experience done on 720, but `init' fails !! Message-ID: <20010410094613.K6992@linuxcare.com> References: <3AC90274.4687ED7C@dot.at> <20010403001743.G9198@linuxcare.com> <3AC973D3.F1453A4C@alcatel.at> <20010403223441.A11435@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3ACAC867.25327463@alcatel.at> <20010404180518.C11435@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3AD09AFB.EBDFF975@dot.at> <20010409205209.2FF0437CDB@carmen.fc.hp.com> <3AD225CF.1AF048F1@dot.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3AD225CF.1AF048F1@dot.at>; from christoph.plattner@dot.at on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:12:47PM +0200 List-ID: On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:12:47PM +0200, Christoph Plattner wrote: > Those procresses have very low pids (2,3,....). So I have to analyse the > code, > what pid=9 will become ? The break happens here ! PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:02 init 2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd] 3 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd] 4 ? SW 0:00 [kreclaimd] 5 ? SW 0:00 [bdflush] 6 ? SW 0:00 [kupdate] 7 ? SW 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] 73 ? S 0:00 /sbin/portmap 80 ? SW 0:00 [rpciod] 81 ? SW 0:00 [lockd] 124 ? S 0:00 /sbin/syslogd 127 ? S 0:00 /sbin/klogd 134 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd 144 ? S 0:01 /usr/sbin/sshd 148 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 151 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 154 ttyS0 S 0:00 /sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 155 ? S 0:00 in.telnetd: beast.home 156 pts/0 S 0:00 -bash 157 pts/0 R 0:00 ps ax Looks like PID 9 has run and exited during startup. This is a freshly booted B180. One thought, if you have module support or hotplug support turned on in your kernel config, you should turn them off for the time being. The kernel might be trying to trigger a module load and failing. Richard