Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1

[Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:45:06 -0700
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>- It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely
>>>  compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc. 
>>>  I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen.
>>
>>PPC64 blades shit themselves in a strange way. Possibly the udev
>>breakage you mentioned? Hard to tell really if people are going to
>>go around breaking userspace compatibility ;-(
> 
> 
> What version of udev is it running?
> 
> 
>>http://test.kernel.org/abat/48127/debug/console.log
>>
>>..
>>
>>sda: Write Protect is off
>>sda: cache data unavailable
>>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>>SCSI device sda: 143374000 512-byte hdwr sectors (73407 MB)
>>sda: Write Protect is off
>>sda: cache data unavailable
>>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>>  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
>>sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sda
>>creating device nodes .[: [0-9]*: bad number
>>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2
>>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0
>>[: [0-9]*: bad number
>>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2
>>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0
>>[: [0-9]*: bad number
>>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2
>>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0
>>[: [0-9]*: bad number
>>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2
>>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0
>>[: [0-9]*: bad number
>>
>>
> 
> 
> That all looks rather bad.
> 
> 
>>ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
>>looking for init ...
>>found /sbin/init
>>/init: cannot open .//dev//console: no such file
> 
> 
> Bizarrely-formed pathname.  Does it always do that?


Working one (-git3): http://test.kernel.org/abat/48064/debug/console.log

Same sgio shit. no mention of /dev/console, but it's an error message,
so not unexpected.

> Has udev actually attempted to do anything by this stage?

Buggered if I know. I always just turn it off on my machines.

> I wasn't seeing anything that spectacular.  It used to be the case that
> udev simply hung.  But in rc7-mm1 the symptoms are that incoming ssh
> sessions hang, but most other things work OK.
> 
> Oh well - Greg has split that tree apart and I shall not be pulling the
> more problematic bits henceforth.

OK, may not be that at all ... could be something entirely different.
Just seemed co-incicental to your comments.

M.