[HANG] Checking root filesystem and then...

[HANG] Checking root filesystem and then...

[Maurice Volaski]

Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and 
Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the 
ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking 
root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.

It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I 
remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it 
stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!

I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have 
discovered that

2.4.10-pre5 works
2.4.10-pre6 hangs

2.4.9-ac7 works
2.4.9-ac8 hangs

How many others are seeing this behavior?

Does anyone recognize something that changed in these kernels that 
could be responsible? The only thing I notice in common in the change 
logs are references to gendisk. (I am not sure how that could be 
responsible as the boot disk is a SCSI disk managed the ServRAID 
driver.)

Does anyone have any idea how this could be further investigated?
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Re: [HANG] Checking root filesystem and then...

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:39:36PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and 
> Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the 
> ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking 
> root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.
> 
> It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I 
> remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it 
> stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!
> 
> I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have 
> discovered that
> 
> 2.4.10-pre5 works
> 2.4.10-pre6 hangs
> 
> 2.4.9-ac7 works
> 2.4.9-ac8 hangs

2.4.9-ac17+ should work again, could you test it please?

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.

Re: [HANG] Checking root filesystem and then...

[Maurice Volaski]

>On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:39:36PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
>>  Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and
>>  Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the
>>  ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking
>>  root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.
>>
>>  It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I
>>  remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it
>>  stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!
>>
>>  I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have
>>  discovered that
>>
>>  2.4.10-pre5 works
>>  2.4.10-pre6 hangs
>>
>>  2.4.9-ac7 works
>>  2.4.9-ac8 hangs
>
>2.4.9-ac17+ should work again, could you test it please?
>

Yes, it works!

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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University