2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

[jeff]

Please CC me on replies. I just joined the list and don't want
to miss any replies.

I have been running 2.4.1-pre10 for quite some time with no
problems. I just upgraded to 2.4.2 and everything seem to work
fine until I did...  (as root or course)

mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro mycdimage.iso /mnt/cdrom

at which point the mount process hung in an uninterruptable sleep.
after that I can no longer successfully issue any other mount
commands, including non-loopback mounts. I can mount/unmount
regular partitions before mounting anything via loopback.

Any ideas as to what is wrong?
The only thing I can think of is that my modutils is v2.3.19
but I doubt that is doing it as the loop module and other modules
are loaded fine.

If anybody has an idea as to what I broke please let me know.
I will upgrade modutils tomorrow and see if the problem goes
away while I wait for a possibly more accurate response.

Thank you,

Jeff Wiegley

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

[Mohammad A. Haque]

loopback is broken in 2.4.2 AFAIK. You can grab the loop-6 patch and
apply it to 2.4.2 and it should work.

You should also upgrade modutils to 2.4.2 as it's required by 2.4.2 (so
says the Change file anyways).

jeff@CYTE.COM wrote:
> Any ideas as to what is wrong?
> The only thing I can think of is that my modutils is v2.3.19
> but I doubt that is doing it as the loop module and other modules
> are loaded fine.
> 
> If anybody has an idea as to what I broke please let me know.
> I will upgrade modutils tomorrow and see if the problem goes
> away while I wait for a possibly more accurate response.

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Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

[Jim Murray]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 jeff@CYTE.COM wrote:

Compiling with kgcc compiler from RedHat 7.0 breaks loopback in the
way you describe on 2.4.2-prex kernels and I suspect also in the real 2.4.2.

Jim

> Please CC me on replies. I just joined the list and don't want
> to miss any replies.
>
> I have been running 2.4.1-pre10 for quite some time with no
> problems. I just upgraded to 2.4.2 and everything seem to work
> fine until I did...  (as root or course)
>
> mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro mycdimage.iso /mnt/cdrom
>
> at which point the mount process hung in an uninterruptable sleep.
> after that I can no longer successfully issue any other mount
> commands, including non-loopback mounts. I can mount/unmount
> regular partitions before mounting anything via loopback.
>
> Any ideas as to what is wrong?
> The only thing I can think of is that my modutils is v2.3.19
> but I doubt that is doing it as the loop module and other modules
> are loaded fine.
>
> If anybody has an idea as to what I broke please let me know.
> I will upgrade modutils tomorrow and see if the problem goes
> away while I wait for a possibly more accurate response.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeff Wiegley
>
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Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

[J Sloan]

Red Hat 7.x running nicely on a number of machines
here w/ no problem, with all apologies to the Red Hat
bashers -

The real problem is loopback is broken, and the
fix still needs to be merged.

In the meantime, Jens Axboe's loop patches will
make it work -

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.2-pre4/

jjs

 Murray wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 jeff@CYTE.COM wrote:
>
> Compiling with kgcc compiler from RedHat 7.0 breaks loopback in the
> way you describe on 2.4.2-prex kernels and I suspect also in the real 2.4.2.
>
> Jim
>
> > Please CC me on replies. I just joined the list and don't want
> > to miss any replies.
> >
> > I have been running 2.4.1-pre10 for quite some time with no
> > problems. I just upgraded to 2.4.2 and everything seem to work
> > fine until I did...  (as root or course)
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro mycdimage.iso /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > at which point the mount process hung in an uninterruptable sleep.
> > after that I can no longer successfully issue any other mount
> > commands, including non-loopback mounts. I can mount/unmount
> > regular partitions before mounting anything via loopback.
> >
> > Any ideas as to what is wrong?
> > The only thing I can think of is that my modutils is v2.3.19
> > but I doubt that is doing it as the loop module and other modules
> > are loaded fine.
> >
> > If anybody has an idea as to what I broke please let me know.
> > I will upgrade modutils tomorrow and see if the problem goes
> > away while I wait for a possibly more accurate response.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Jeff Wiegley
> >
> > -
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>
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Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

[Mohammad A. Haque]

This is not the real problem. Loopback is just broken.


Jim Murray wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 jeff@CYTE.COM wrote:
> 
> Compiling with kgcc compiler from RedHat 7.0 breaks loopback in the
> way you describe on 2.4.2-prex kernels and I suspect also in the real 2.4.2.
> 
> Jim
> 

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