Bug 122018 – sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.14-r5 fails to boot

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 11:28:14 UTC]

After updating from sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.14-r3 to 2.6.14-r5, my machine fails to boot. The error message 'Failed to open an initial console' is displayed and the system automatically restarts.

How the problem occured:
I emerged 2.6.14-r5, copied over my .config and executed 'make oldconfig' and then 'make install' (I do not use any kernel modules). After trying to reboot into the new kernel, the above problem occured. 2.6.14-r3 still works perfectly with the exact same config.

Output of 'emerge info' follows. 

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-hardened-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-hardened-r3 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
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:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apache2 bash-completion crypt hardened nls nptl pam ssl tcpd unicode linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 kfm 2006-02-07 11:33:10 UTC]

Please attach to this bug:

  * The ".config" files from both your 2.6.14-r3 and 2.6.14-r5 source trees
  * The output of the "dmesg" command having booted with your 2.6.14-r3 kernel

Thanks.

[Comment 2 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 11:34:43 UTC]

Created attachment 79148 [details]
kernel config

This is my .config which is working with the 2.6.14-hardened-r3 kernel, but not with r5.

After executing 'make oldconfig' in the r5 kernel tree, the only diff between this one and the newly generated .config is in the version comments.

[Comment 3 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 11:37:32 UTC]

Created attachment 79149 [details]
dmesg output

The output of 'dmesg' running 2.6.14-hardened-r3.

[Comment 4 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 11:41:57 UTC]

Created attachment 79150 [details]
config diff

Output of 'diff -u' between the r3 config and the r5 config after running 'make oldconfig' in the r5 tree.

[Comment 5 kfm 2006-02-07 12:20:41 UTC]

OK, can you also attach/say:

  * lscpi output
  * information about arguments passed to kernel and/or the relevant conf snippet
  * which version of udev you're running

Can you also do the following:

  # mkdir /tmproot
  # mount -o bind / /tmproot
  # ls -l /tmproot/dev/{null,console} <-- what does this say?

[Comment 6 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 15:54:43 UTC]

Created attachment 79173 [details]
lspci

Outpout of 'lspci'.

[Comment 7 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 15:56:52 UTC]

Created attachment 79174 [details]
grub config

[Comment 8 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 15:59:33 UTC]

>   * which version of udev you're running

I am running sys-fs/udev-079-r1.

[Comment 9 René Fleschenberg 2006-02-07 16:02:42 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
>   # mkdir /tmproot
>   # mount -o bind / /tmproot
>   # ls -l /tmproot/dev/{null,console} <-- what does this say?

# ls -l /tmproot/dev/console /tmproot/dev/null

crw-------  1 root tty  5, 1 17. Feb 2005  /tmproot/dev/console
crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 1, 3 17. Feb 2005  /tmproot/dev/null

[Comment 10 kfm 2006-03-07 03:20:04 UTC]

Here are two things for you to test. Firstly, to apply the following patch to your existing 2.6.14-r5 tree and test:

  * http://tinyurl.com/rwz9z

Secondly, to install the sources from scratch like so (then test again with same .config):

  # UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE="1410" emerge =hardened-sources-2.6.14-r5

Please let me know the outcome as soon as you can - thanks.

[Comment 11 kfm 2006-03-10 05:18:53 UTC]

Changing resolution to TEST-REQUEST and removing the block (until the reporter responds). Please see bug 121925 for details of further work on the hardened-sources tree as it stands.

[Comment 12 kfm 2006-03-16 04:43:04 UTC]

Note that hardened-sources-2.6.14-r6 has been committed so it would be good for this to be tested. It incorporates the patch linked to in comment 10.

[Comment 13 René Fleschenberg 2006-03-16 05:10:45 UTC]

Sorry for the delay. I will test this with -r6 ASAP.

[Comment 14 René Fleschenberg 2006-03-17 15:05:35 UTC]

It seems to be fixed in -r6. Thanks.

[Comment 15 kfm 2006-03-17 16:30:11 UTC]

Great! Thanks for testing it.

[Comment 16 kfm 2006-03-17 16:36:01 UTC]

Oops, wrong resolution - re-opening to rectify ...

[Comment 17 kfm 2006-03-17 16:38:08 UTC]

Marking as FIXED :)