From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Mansfield Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk+ broken networking Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:43:41 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030604184341.A10256@beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20030604161437.2b4d3a79.shemminger@osdl.org> <3EDE7FEB.2C7FAEC7@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Jeff Garzik , "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Andrew Morton Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EDE7FEB.2C7FAEC7@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:25:31PM -0700 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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