From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Winchester Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 -- strange apparent network failures Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:48:35 -0400 Message-ID: <200711170848.35726.kjwinchester@gmail.com> References: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071115164441.67a8e2df.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <473E794A.4060107@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , apw@shadowen.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Andrew Morgan Return-path: In-Reply-To: <473E794A.4060107@kernel.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On November 17, 2007 01:16:58 am Andrew Morgan wrote: > Hi, > > This warning is just saying that you might want to reconsider > recompiling your dhclient with a newer libcap - which has native support > for 64-bit capabilities. This is supposed to be informative, and not be > associated with any particular error. > > From your comments, you believe that this patch causes something in your > boot process to fail. Can you supply some detail about the version of > dhclient you are using? I'd like to understand exactly what it is doing > (via libcap). > > Thanks > The boot succeeds (and appears to bring initialize the network adapter properly - it autonegotiates a 100Mbps link speed), but the dhcp client is never able to get an address. However, applying the rc2-mm1 patch series up to just before: add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel.patch results in a working kernel. Applying just this patch causes the failure. To be sure, I also tried applying the above patch plus the following ones: add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel-checkpatch-fixes.patch add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel-fix.patch add-64-bit-capability-support-to-the-kernel-fix-fix.patch remove-unnecessary-include-from-include-linux-capabilityh.patch but the problem still occurs even with all of these. As to versions, I'm running Kubuntu gutsy, so I have the default: dhcp3-client 3.0.5-3ubuntu4 libcap1 1:1.10-14build1 packages installed. Let me know if you need any other information, or if you have a patch you would like tested. -- Kevin Winchester