When I boot with either 2.6.0 or 2.6.3-rc3, it says, "Calculating module dependencies", then, about a second later, it says "FATAL: Module ide_probe_mod not found." At this point, I can press CTRL-C to make it say "Failed to calculate module dependencies", but otherwise can only reboot. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: emerge sync emerge -puU world build linux-2.6.3-rc3, including modules-install, make /usr/src/linux point to linux-2.6.3-rc3. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel change /boot/grub/grub.conf reboot Actual Results: It boots up normally, until it prints "Calculating module dependencies" and hangs. (Keyboard is still responsive, but I can't get to a shell or get it to continue) Expected Results: It should boot normally. The first time it failed was when I first booted 2.6.3-rc3. Then I tried to boot 2.6.0, and the first time i tried it failed, and the second time it worked. I hadn't yet seen the "FATAL: Module ide_probe_mod not found" message yet. On a hunch, I did "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge modutils module-init-tools". After doing this, I could never get it to work with either 2.6.0 or 2.6.3-rc3, but I always saw the message. Before all of this, I had emerged world, and when running etc-update, I remember some of the boot scripts being changed. emerge info ----------- Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd emacs encode esd foomaticdb gb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib jack java jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos ladcca ldap libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wxwindows x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
i get a little further. My system makes it all the way to the ALSA init script, then freezes immediately after. keyboard is responsive, but no shell, and no continuing. Needs a reset.
I just tested 2.6.3, and the problem is still exactly as before. And this time, I didn't re-emerge nvidia-kernel after making the new kernel, so I don't think it has anything to do with nVidia.
I just unmerged udev, and now it works fine. I don't actually use udev, I just had it emerged for some reason. I first tried adding "/bin/bash &" to /etc/init.d/modules right after it prints "calculating module dependencies, but I got no shell. (So I'm pretty sure the kernel got corrupted in some way.) I then tried reverting from udev 017 to 016-r1, which had no effect. Then I unmerged it entirely, and it booted. It's worth mentioning I also removed a /sys line I had added to my /etc/fstab. Also, a further observation - the console, while responsive, is somewhat corrupt. You can type stuff, but backspace just makes those keys appear in reverse order with a slash before them. Alt-SysRq-R (unRaw) has no effect.
Is your kernel built with devfs support?
Yes, my kernel has devfs support.
How about the kernels 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 and newer udev versions? Does the problem still exist?
As stated, he fixed it by unmerging udev.
