From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:42:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:41:59 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.14.212]:30017 "HELO winder.codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:41:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:41:53 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: Alan Cox Cc: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /proc/partitions hosed Message-ID: <20010924104153.A29097@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Alan Cox , toon@vdpas.hobby.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010924124131.A4755@vdpas.hobby.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.9-ac10-rmk1, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel sa110 rev 3), 262.14 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon Sep 24, 2001 at 01:26:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > It didn't get trough the boot-sequence (RedHat-7.1). > > After some investigation it turned out that it hang in > > the kudzu script, and further on also in the netfs script. > > The programs `/usr/sbin/updfstab', `/usr/sbin/kudzu' and > > the command `mount -a' are all falling into a loop. > > The scsi partition handling code in 2.4.10 is broken > > The cause seems to be the new gendisk changes, although quite why is still > a mystery. I didn't have time to dig into it, since I needed to get some work done. So I reverted drivers/scsi/sd.c to stock 2.4.9, which made the problem go away for me, -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: andersee@debian.org, formerly of Lineo --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--