Re: Linux-2.6.21 hangs during post boot initialization phase

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Peter Williams wrote:
>> The 2.6.21 kernel is hanging during the post boot phase where various daemons
>> are being started (not always the same daemon unfortunately).
>>
>> This problem was not present in 2.6.21-rc7 and there is no oops or other
>> unusual output in the system log at the time the hang occurs.
> 
> Can you use "git bisect" to narrow it down a bit more? It's only 125 
> commits, so bisecting even just three or four kernels will narrow it down 
> to a handful

Yes.  I'm just in the process of reading up on how to do the bisecting 
now.  Should have an answer in a few hours, I guess.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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