Re: 2.5.70-bk+ broken networking

[Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:25:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 
> > Test machine running 2.5.70-bk latest can't boot because eth2 won't
> > come up.  The same machine and configuration successfully brings up
> > all the devices and runs on 2.5.70.
> 
> kjournald is stuck waiting for IO to complete against some buffer
> during transaction commit.
> 
> I'd be suspecting block layer or device drivers.  What device driver
> is handling your /var/log?

I also can't get networking up on current bk, I don't know if this is
the same problem, the system did not hang (I'm not running NIS?).

I also got that "sender address length == 0" message, I have not seen it
before, it seems to be output by the "ip -o link".

During boot:

[ ... ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
Enabling swap space:  [  OK  ]
/bin/cat: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directory
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Entering non-interactive startup
Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface lo:  [  OK  ] 
sender address length == 0 
sender address length == 0
Starting system logger: [  OK  ]
Starting kernel logger: [  OK  ]
Starting portmapper: [  OK  ]  
Starting NFS file locking services:
[ ... ]

After logging in:

[root@elm3b79 root]# ifup eth0
sender address length == 0
[root@elm3b79 root]# ip -o link
sender address length == 0
[root@elm3b79 root]# dmesg | grep eth0
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 33 at 0xf8800000, 00:00:BC:0F:03:EB, IRQ 36.

-- Patrick Mansfield