From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:44:41 -0800 Message-ID: <20071115164441.67a8e2df.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071115100209.GB2513@shadowen.org> <200711152028.29734.kjwinchester@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: apw@shadowen.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Andrew Morgan To: Kevin Winchester Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:50324 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765796AbXKPApf (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:45:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200711152028.29734.kjwinchester@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:28:29 -0400 Kevin Winchester wrote: > On November 15, 2007 06:02:09 am Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > 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? > > > > I see this as well - the computer boots fine but no network. The only clues > in the dmesg are: > > [ 294.097876] warning: process `dhclient' gets w/ old libcap > [ 294.097893] warning: process `dhclient' sets w/ old libcap > > So I'll try backing up the patch series to before: > > add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel.patch Yes, that's a good one to suspect. What a peculiar error message. > or so, and see if that's the problem. If anyone has any other ideas, let me > know.