Re: [BUG 2.6.38.8] Bisected to commit 5fb46ae7b8c51b05a12c6a66108e8d398c20ee09

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:23:56AM +0200, Knut Petersen wrote:
> Am 07.07.2011 02:33, schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:06:40PM +0200, Knut Petersen wrote:
> >> Hi everybody!
> >>
> >> An openSuse 11.2 system reliably refused to boot properly with kernel 2.6.38.8
> >> although the prior 2.6.38.y kernels worked fine.  After a few seconds booting
> >> stopped. Several <ctrl-c> did help, but a lot of services were not started properly,
> >> only the root partition was available. Nothing unusual could be found in the
> >> kernel messages.
> >>
> >> I bisected the problem to commit 5fb46ae7b8c51b05a12c6a66108e8d398c20ee09.
> >>
> >> That gave me the idea to disconnect the Plextor PX-755A dvd drive  and to
> >> try 2.6.38.8 again. It booted without problem.
> > Does the 2.6.39.2 kernel work properly for you?
> >
> Yes.  Kernel 2.6.38[,1,2,3,4,5,6,7] 2.6.39[1,2] 3.0-git are ok, only 2.6.38.8 is broken in the
> way described above.

Good.  You do know that 2.6.38.y is end-of-life and you should move on
to 2.6.39, right?  There's nothing I can do right now for the .38 series
to resolve this, sorry.

greg k-h