From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk+ broken networking Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:42:13 -0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030605024212.GI24515@conectiva.com.br> References: <20030604161437.2b4d3a79.shemminger@osdl.org> <3EDE7FEB.2C7FAEC7@digeo.com> <20030604185652.31958d1f.akpm@digeo.com> <20030605023349.GH24515@conectiva.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: To: Andrew Morton , shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030605023349.GH24515@conectiva.com.br> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Em Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:33:49PM -0300, Arnaldo C. Melo escreveu: > Em Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:56:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton escreveu: > > 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 take that back. > > > > Your sysrq-T woke up syslogd which did a synchronous write which poked > > kjournald. You happened to catch it in mid-commit. So that's all normal > > and sane. > > > > Something is up with netdevice initialisation. My eth0 (e100) is in a > > strange half-there state and won't come up. Reverting the post-2.5.70 e100 > > changes does not help. It's something which went into the tree today I > > think. > > Strange as I'm using 2.5.70-latest-bk as of 30 minutes ago, i.e. uptodate with > Linus + my network patches. Thing is related to nfs, please nfs loading at Ouch, it should have been "please disable nfs loading..." > boot time and try again, worked for me, don't know what is wrong with nfs > loading tho (haven't checked at all, just disabled loading of the nfs > server) :-(