Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

[Stefano Rivoir <s.rivoir@gts.it>]

Martin Orr wrote:
> On 11/07/07 06:38, Stefano Rivoir wrote:
>> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Stefano Rivoir wrote:
>>>> 2.6.22 hangs at boot on my box. Here attached a original dmesg from 2.6.21,
>>>> and a copy of it where it stops on 2.6.22 (I can't attach the original 2.6.22
>>>> dmesg because it's not logged to disk yet); it actually stops right after
>>>> 'init' launches.
>> Ok, the guilty bit is gcc: in my box, compiling kernel with gcc 4.2.x
>> (which is installed on my debian/sid) turns into a hang (in init,
>> seemingly, maybe not even in kernel itself), while gcc-4.1 is allright.
> 
> I have the same problem, also on Debian sid on amd64.  I can report that the
> Debian version 4.2-20070627-1 of gcc works, 4.2-20070707-1 does not.
> 
> Also the hang occurs in udevsettle; if you wait long enough (60 seconds?)
> then udevsettle times out and the boot continues (but doesn't get very far
> with an almost empty /dev).

I suspected it was something about /dev populating, but I hadn't any 
clue on how to make it go on. To be sure, I've left it "hanging" 
(actually, it's not a completely unresponsive hang, SysRq works fine) 
for even 15 minutes, without any luck.

Could you please try to compile 2.6.22-git1 and see if you get an 
internal gcc error? It is in the first kernel-core related files, you 
should hit it too.

This evening I'll be able to be more precise about the exact file, I 
don't have the box here.

Bye.

-- 
Stefano RIVOIR