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To: "Breno" <brenosp@brasilsec.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Freeing unused kernel memnory - bug
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:42:45 +0200
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"Breno" <brenosp@brasilsec.com.br> writes:

> Hi ,
>
> I´m using 2.4.22 and when i reboot my system , the boot process stop when
> "freeing unused memory" message appear.
>
> What can be ?

It's failing when the kernel first enters user space.

This often happens after a miscompilation, e.g. when some files are
not uptodate. Do a make distclean and try again.

-Andi