Re: More on 2.1.129 oops

Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:54:49 +0100

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > >
> > > Very good. Got the problem. I do not know about a real fix, but a good
> > > workaround would be to remove the "inline" attribute of kernel_thread
> > > in include/asm-i386/unistd.h . Would be nice if you told me if that
> > > fixes the problem (it really should).
> >
> > Well, I was about to do that when I noticed the number of places that
> > kernel_thread() is called.
>
> That's actually a good argument for it not being inline. And it's not
> timing-critical either.
>

Not sure my problem falls in this category, but while this desktop box
looks fine with .129, I have had problems .127 thru .129 on my laptop
where I got to finish booting, input login+passwd, saw the last login
banner but had didn't get the bash prompt. This was repeatable on all
VCs. So far I got to

=> wait for 15' before logging in (yes, I did _eventually_, and then
performance was normal...)
=> change default initrunlvl to 1 (worked, didn't try going to 3 though)
=> remove knfsd from the picture (still no go)
=> remove dhcpcd from the picture (no way)
=> entirely remove PCMCIA initialization (no way)

=> mv /sbin/update /sbin/update.orig (worked, starting it from the bash
prompt _after_ logging in was okay...)

I went for the last thing since AltSysRq+T showed 'update' being the
"current" task running when my logins were hanging...

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux 2.0.35/2.1.129 glibc-2.0.7-19 gcc-2.8.1 binutils-2.9.1.0.15

"I know I'm slow, but I'm not stupid" -- Roland Deschain

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