I emerged gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3 tonight. I copied my .config over to it and ran make menuconfig, saved the config back, then compiled with: make clean bzImage modules modules_install After it was done, copied it over to /boot, fixed up grub, then rebooted. The system hung on reboot after my detecting my parallel port. The screen freezes but the keyboard still responds to numlock. System does not boot any further. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: I was hoping 2.6.3 would boot ;) Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.1-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.noved.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/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="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint glade gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt qtmt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xine xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I see this in my /var/log/messages on the boot for the failing kernel: Feb 18 22:06:10 asteria-linux request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- parport_lowlevel. error = -16
My newly built 2.6.3 also hangs on boot, around IDE detection. I am using the latest bootsplash (-r8) if it matters.
I made a few investigations to see what the problem might be. "gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3" freezed on my box, while "gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-rc2" worked flawless, using the very same .config. I'm using "bootsplash", which was the reason for me to emerge the gentoo-dev-sources in favour of the vanilla ones. The problem occurs also around IDE detection: hda: TOSHIBA MK3018GAS, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: SONY CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX810E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on IRQ 15 hda: max request size:128 KiB ... FREEZE Output is normally followed by: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 58605120 sectors (30005 MB), CHS=58140/16/63, UDMA(100) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 > hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(16) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 153x54 [...] I then emerged a vanilla 2.6.3 kernel without any patches, which booted up fine. After that, I patched the vanilla 2.6.3 kernel with bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.0-test9.diff, removing the rejects, booting up again, and see: It freezes at the same line the gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3 do. So I guess there must be a problem with bootsplash and 2.6.3 in general. Any more observations on this?
I just tried with 2.6.3-ck1 and bootsplash patch applied "by hand" and it works fine. Only dev-sources failed for me.
Just tried vanilla sources ("development-sources-2.6.3), manually patched with "bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.3-r2.patch" from http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/stuff/. This combination works without a problem here.
Happens also to me, on a IBM thinkpad G40. I made no changes to my kernel setup since rc2... It hangs after IDE detection also for me.
gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r1 was released o resolve this problem. appologies for the rushed release (triggered by security update/imminant releases)
Confirmed - 2.6.3-r1 fixed the problem for me. However, the 2.6.3 kernel's emu10k1 ALSA driver cracks and pops when I play a sound in KDE. :( Oh well, thanks for fixing the boot problem!
