cannot open initial console

cannot open initial console

[Matheus Izvekov]

Hi all

When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
"warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2

Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?

Thanks all in advance.

Re: cannot open initial console

[Matheus Izvekov]

On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
>
> Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
>
> Thanks all in advance.
>

Actually, i dont even know what git tree i should be using for this...
How can i get the individual patches for the 2.6.15.1 -> 2.6.15.2 transition?

Re: cannot open initial console

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:27:30AM -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> > "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> > for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
> >
> > Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> > changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
> >
> > Thanks all in advance.
> >
> 
> Actually, i dont even know what git tree i should be using for this...
> How can i get the individual patches for the 2.6.15.1 -> 2.6.15.2 transition?

   http://www.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/

Willy

Re: cannot open initial console

[Nigel Cunningham]

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Hi.

On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:18, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
>
> Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?

My guess would be that /dev/console doesn't exist on an initrd/initramfs 
you're using. If you're not using one, my second guess would be that 
something did a nasty and deleted the node on you. Only a guess, mind you.

Regards,

Nigel

> Thanks all in advance.
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Re: cannot open initial console

[Matheus Izvekov]

On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
>
> Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
>
> Thanks all in advance.
>

Found the bad patch by reversing by hand.

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
index 42afb5b..9c38f10 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ static void handle_attrs(struct super_bl
                        REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt &= ~(1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
                }
        } else if (le32_to_cpu(rs->s_flags) & reiserfs_attrs_cleared) {
-               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= REISERFS_ATTRS;
+               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= (1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
        }
 }

Reversing this fixes the problem, double checked it. What was that
patch supposed to do anyway?

Re: cannot open initial console

[Matheus Izvekov]

On 2/23/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> > "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> > for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
> >
> > Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> > changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
> >
> > Thanks all in advance.
> >
>
> Found the bad patch by reversing by hand.
>
> diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> index 42afb5b..9c38f10 100644
> --- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ static void handle_attrs(struct super_bl
>                         REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt &= ~(1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
>                 }
>         } else if (le32_to_cpu(rs->s_flags) & reiserfs_attrs_cleared) {
> -               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= REISERFS_ATTRS;
> +               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= (1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
>         }
>  }
>
> Reversing this fixes the problem, double checked it. What was that
> patch supposed to do anyway?
>

Adding Vitaly Fertman to this thread, as he is the one who seems to
have submitted that patch.

Re: cannot open initial console

[Chris Wright]

* Matheus Izvekov (mizvekov@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 2/23/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >         } else if (le32_to_cpu(rs->s_flags) & reiserfs_attrs_cleared) {
> > -               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= REISERFS_ATTRS;
> > +               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= (1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
> >         }
> >  }
> >
> > Reversing this fixes the problem, double checked it. What was that
> > patch supposed to do anyway?
> 
> Adding Vitaly Fertman to this thread, as he is the one who seems to
> have submitted that patch.

It's attempting to properly automatically enable a reiserfs feature
supporting attributes (via chattr/lsattr interface).  When mounting
(w/out attrs mount option) a reiserfs that should support attrs, the
above patch fixes the value OR'd with s_mount_opt (which was incorrectly
the shift value rather than the shifted value).  This has been backed
out in current -stable queue, and was fixed in Linus' tree as well.

thanks,
-chris

Re: cannot open initial console

[Vitaly Fertman]

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On Thursday 23 February 2006 09:46, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> On 2/23/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> > > "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> > > for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
> > >
> > > Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> > > changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
> > >
> > > Thanks all in advance.
> > >
> >
> > Found the bad patch by reversing by hand.
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> > index 42afb5b..9c38f10 100644
> > --- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> > @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ static void handle_attrs(struct super_bl
> >                         REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt &= ~(1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
> >                 }
> >         } else if (le32_to_cpu(rs->s_flags) & reiserfs_attrs_cleared) {
> > -               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= REISERFS_ATTRS;
> > +               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= (1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
> >         }
> >  }
> >
> > Reversing this fixes the problem, double checked it. What was that
> > patch supposed to do anyway?
> >
> 
> Adding Vitaly Fertman to this thread, as he is the one who seems to
> have submitted that patch.

this line enables attribues by default -- sets the mount option flag. 
the problem was that the value itself, instead of the flag, was set.

reiserfs_attrs_cleared on-disk super block flag indicates if attributes 
of all files were cleared initially or not -- fs is ready to use attributes.
if they were not cleared, files may contain garbage instead of attribute flags. 

reiserfs_attrs_cleared flag may lie, garbage in file attributes may appear 
due to using old kernels/reiserfsprogs, before attributes were supported by 
reiserfs; or due to a corruption.

so it seems better to disable the enable-by-default behaviour -- look into 
the attachment please -- and clear the file attributes before using them: 
	reiserfsck --clean-attributes <device>

-- 
Vitaly

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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>
Subject: [PATCH] reiserfs: disable automatic enabling of reiserfs inode attributes
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:37:58 -0500
Message-ID: <20060212163758.GB5190@locomotive.unixthugs.org>

 Unfortunately, the reiserfs_attrs_cleared bit in the superblock flag can lie.
 File systems have been observed with the bit set, yet still contain garbage
 in the stat data field, causing unpredictable results.

 This patch backs out the enable-by-default behavior.

 It eliminates the changes from: d50a5cd860ce721dbeac6a4f3c6e42abcde68cd8, and
 ef5e5414e7a83eb9b4295bbaba5464410b11e030.

  fs/reiserfs/super.c |    2 --
  1 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>

diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.15/fs/reiserfs/super.c linux-2.6.15-reiserfs/fs/reiserfs/super.c
--- linux-2.6.15/fs/reiserfs/super.c	2006-02-06 19:54:27.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15-reiserfs/fs/reiserfs/super.c	2006-02-12 11:19:15.000000000 -0500
@@ -1121,8 +1121,6 @@ static void handle_attrs(struct super_bl
 					 "reiserfs: cannot support attributes until flag is set in super-block");
 			REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt &= ~(1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
 		}
-	} else if (le32_to_cpu(rs->s_flags) & reiserfs_attrs_cleared) {
-		REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= (1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SuSE Labs