From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763941AbXKOKDb (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:03:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756484AbXKOKDU (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:03:20 -0500 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:1050 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755433AbXKOKDT (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:03:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:02:09 +0000 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kamalesh Babulal Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures Message-ID: <20071115100209.GB2513@shadowen.org> References: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When testing some of the later 2.6.24-rc2-mm1+hotfix combinations on three of our test systems one job from each batch (1/4) failed. In each case the machine appears to have booted normally all the way to a login: prompt. However in the failed boots the networking though apparently initialised completely and correctly (as far as I can tell from the console output), is reported as not responding to ssh connections. The network interface seems to have been initialised on the right port, and the ssh daemons started. Two of the machines are powerpc boxes, the other an older x86_64. One machine is 4/4 in testing, just one. Most of the other machines are still not able to compile this stack so do not contribute to our knowledge. Any ideas? -apw