bug or what??

[Marco Zanon <m.zanon@usa.net>]

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Hi :)

I'd like to report some strange things happening to me since
using kernel 2.2.17 (2.2.15-4mdk was better instead).

*** MOST STRANGE ***

The following are strange behaviours, because they only happen
"sometimes" when booting or shutting down!
Sorry, I was not able to determine *when* they happen, I only
know that the configuration is the same boot after boot.

1) Sometimes, after "Welcome to Linux Mandrake", the next 2
lines (which are: "press I to enter interactive startup" and
"mounting proc filesystem") are translated right of about 20
chars!!
Everyting else is ok.

2) Sometimes, when shutting down (note: reboot is ok,
instead), the computer does not halt automatically, but I see
"power down" and I have to shut it down manually by pushing
the power-off button.
I have set ON the "use apm call to shut down" option, before
compiling the kernel: in fact, it sometimes works.

Can you please tell me what it's all about?

***

3) A friend of mine, also using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and having
a similar pc, says to have a >900 BogoMIPS indicator, while
mine is <800. Why?!
This also happened with kernel 2.2.15.

4) There is a line (but dmesg does not report it), during the
boot, which says: "Finding module dependencies...", and then
reports an error (FAILED), saying that "ftw.c" reports a false
"assert==0". I'm not sure about this indication, but it is so
fast that I cannot write it down.
However, it does not seem to create particular problems.
Kernel 2.2.15 was ok in this.

5) I'm not able to use supermount, even if I activated the
option before compiling the kernel! Supermount was not ok on
2.2.15, too...
I have tried many different configuration, both working on
LinuxConf or on /etc/auto.misc, /etc/auto.master, /etc/fstab,
/etc/mtab.
Every setting is ok (they are the same with a friend of mine
having a similar pc): partitions, mount points, fs type
"supermount", options are ok, but it is like Linux does not
know what "supermount" means, even if everything seems to be
ok... The "mount" command does not report errors, but whenever
I try to access the unit it seems not to be mounted or not to
exists, while it functions great by mounting/unmounting
manually!
I repeat, the configuration files are ok, and the daemons are
correctly installed and fully functional. Do you know of any
bug?

I send (as attachments) the report from dmesg and the
configuration file from the current version of the kernel.

Thanks very much ;)

Marco Zanon (powered by Linux Mandrake 7.1)
Coming soon: http://www.marcozanon.com
I am firmly against any kind of spamming!

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Linux version 2.2.17 (root@mz.localhost.it) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #10 SMP Sat Oct 28 20:55:30 CEST 2000
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (002bb000)
Detected 400917 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 799.54 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62704k/65536k available (1380k kernel code, 424k reserved, 968k data, 60k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.09 usecs.
CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb180
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
early initialization of device tunl0 is deferred
GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
early initialization of device gre0 is deferred
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
es1371: version v0.22 time 20:57:26 Oct 28 2000
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x02
es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0x6800 irq 10
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor TRA (0x545241) revision 3 (0x03)
es1371: codec features none
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
Sound initialization started
Sound initialization complete
Linux telephony interface: v1.00
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: ST36531A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG SV0644A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: CRD-8400C, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST36531A, 6204MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63
hdc: SAMSUNG SV0644A, 6105MB w/478kB Cache, CHS=13232/15/63
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1
 hdc: [PTBL] [778/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 >
NTFS version 000607
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)

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# Processor type and features
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CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
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# Loadable module support
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# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
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#  
#
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# Telephony Support
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# SCSI support
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# Network device support
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# ARCnet devices
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# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
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# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
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# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
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# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
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# CCP compressors for PPP will also be built in.
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# CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set

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# Token ring devices
#
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set

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# Wan interfaces
#
# CONFIG_HOSTESS_SV11 is not set
# CONFIG_COSA is not set
# CONFIG_SEALEVEL_4021 is not set
# CONFIG_SYNCLINK_SYNCPPP is not set
# CONFIG_LANMEDIA is not set
# CONFIG_COMX is not set
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_DRIVERS is not set
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# Amateur Radio support
#
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set

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# IrDA (infrared) support
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# CONFIG_IRDA is not set

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# ISDN subsystem
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# Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)
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# Character devices
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# CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is not set
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# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
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# Mice
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# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
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# CONFIG_PC110_PAD is not set

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# Joysticks
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# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set

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# Video For Linux
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# CONFIG_DTLK is not set

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# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
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# Filesystems
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# Network File Systems
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# CONFIG_NFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SUNRPC is not set
# CONFIG_LOCKD is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set

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# Partition Types
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# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
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# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
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# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
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CONFIG_SB_IRQ=7
CONFIG_SB_DMA=1
CONFIG_SB_DMA2=5
CONFIG_SB_MPU_BASE=330

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# MPU401 IRQ is only required with Jazz16, SM Wave and ESS1688.
#

#
# Enter -1 to the following question if you have something else such as SB16/32.
#
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# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
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# CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set
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# CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI is not set

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# Additional low level sound drivers
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# Kernel hacking
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