Re: 2.6.12 initrd module loading seems parallel on bootup

Darryl L. Miles
2005-06-26T10:07:13Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

>"Darryl L. Miles" <darryl@netbauds.net> wrote:
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>>[ modules getting loaded out-of-order and in parallel from initrd ]
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>>
>
>On June 7, Martin Wilck reported:
>
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>>It turned out to be a problem with Red Hat's nash that didn't check the
>>returned pid in it's wait4() call and thus ended up insmod'ing mutliple
>>modules simultaneously, leading to "Unkown symbol" errors. Yuck, it took
>>me a day figure that out.
>>
>>That bug is fixed in redhat's "mkinitrd" package 4.2.0.3-1 and later,
>>but that package is currently only in Fedora's "Development" tree.
>>
>>

Found the thread:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0506.0/1556.html

This works for me:

wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/SRPMS/udev-058-1.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild udev-058-1.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/udev-058-1.i386.rpm

wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/SRPMS/mkinitrd-4.2.17-1.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild mkinitrd-4.2.17-1.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/mkinitrd-4.2.17-1.i386.rpm

Thanks

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Darryl L. Miles