From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:02:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20071115100209.GB2513@shadowen.org> References: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kamalesh Babulal To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:1050 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755433AbXKOKDT (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:03:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org When testing some of the later 2.6.24-rc2-mm1+hotfix combinations on three of our test systems one job from each batch (1/4) failed. In each case the machine appears to have booted normally all the way to a login: prompt. However in the failed boots the networking though apparently initialised completely and correctly (as far as I can tell from the console output), is reported as not responding to ssh connections. The network interface seems to have been initialised on the right port, and the ssh daemons started. Two of the machines are powerpc boxes, the other an older x86_64. One machine is 4/4 in testing, just one. Most of the other machines are still not able to compile this stack so do not contribute to our knowledge. Any ideas? -apw