The gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 and -r5 kernels report a corrupt superblock on the /dev/md0 (RAID1) root device, where the 2.6.12 kernels boot without problems. A quick look at the file system shows no problems. emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.70" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa ansi arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr clisp crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gcl gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libwww lm-sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Please try and reproduce with gentoo-sources-2.6.14
At boot of gentoo-sources-2.6.14 I get a warning about "no support for DEVFS or UDEV". (I usually don't look at the console of a server system.) The fsck.ext3 tells me "no such file or directory when trying to open /dev/md0", the root filesystem itself seems in good shape.
Do you have udev installed? If so, which version? If not, you need to install it.
Why can't I use devfs with 2.6.13? Are there releasenotes? How should I know about them?
devfs has some unfixable problems and has been slated for removal for over a year. 2.6.13 was the first release to exclude it. There are no release notes as such, but the ebuild does mention at the end of the install that udev is now required. We did have the newer ebuilds depending on udev for a while, but that caused problems, so we had them blocking devfs, that also caused problems, so I think we dropped the dependency/block altogether (although newer systems default to udev rather than devfs and have done for a long time). Sorry that the migration couldn't have been more automated at the present time.
Yes, 2.6.13 works with udev installed, thanks. Ethernet doesn't work/isn't set up correctly in 2.6.14. I have had essential messages scroll by several times now. (Go to the bathroom, do some shopping, etc.). Isn't it possible to have portage collect those messages in a file and present them at the end of the emerge?
Yes, Portage 2.1 includes a feature called "elog" which does this kind of thing. I expect that feature to be backported to 2.0 soon (as 2.1 has pretty much become a throwaway tree). Also, getting important news items to users is a hot topic of discussion at the moment. I expect to see the gentoo-announce mailing list being used for announcements like this in the future. There is also some discussion of an "emerge --news" system but I haven't caught up on my mail yet - not sure what its about, but its definately to do with this kind of thing. Read the gentoo-dev mailing list for more info : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel ("Getting Important Updates To Users" and "GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting"). There is some more discussion on http://planet.gentoo.org If it's not just a configuration error, please open a new bug for your 2.6.14 ethernet problems. Thanks.
