Bug 47410 – evms_activate hangs or kernel panics on development-sources 2.6.5 and the udm2 patchset

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Lindquist 2004-04-09 22:45:10 UTC]

Emerged development-sources 2.6.5
applied the evms udm2 patchset, the bbr patch, bb-client patch and dm-origin patch
configured kernel as appropriate for system
rebooted and kernel panics at evms_activate in /etc/init.d/checkfs
System is P3 700 with 128MB or so of ram.  Panic happens with evms 2.2, 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 in same location.
AMD k6-2 (392MB) hangs at same location

Grabbed kernel direct from kernel.org mirror, applied same patches and system booted fine.  Haven't tried this solution with k6-2 system yet.  Expect positive results though.

Additional details at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=159558&sid=2b725062b653cfbd2df69e495b55f9b8

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge development-sources 2.6.5
2.Patch with evms patches & udm2 patchset 
3.configure & reboot
4.see spot hang

Note: assumes an evms system being run, of course

Actual Results:  
system hang / kernel panic (last entry in call stack was for cpu_idle, fwiw)

Expected Results:  
boot fine

From now-functional 2.6.5:
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-mm1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-mm1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fstack-protector"
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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fstack-protector"                      pts/1
2245DISTDIR="/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="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dfx 3dnow X X509 Xaw3d aalib acl acpi afs alsa apm arts avi berkdb bidi
bonobo canna cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal
evms2 evo fam fastcgi fbcon flac foomaticdb gatos gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib innodb java jikes jpeg kde
kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir mcal mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mpeg mpi mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda
pdflib perl plotutils png pnp ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline samba
sasl sdl slang slp snmp socks5 spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype
trusted usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Jason Cox (RETIRED) 2004-04-13 22:42:14 UTC]

Could you try patching a vanilla kernel and seeing if the it still hangs?

[Comment 2 Martin Lindquist 2004-04-14 09:23:50 UTC]

That was the fix, just grabbing a 2.6.5 kernel directly from a kernel.org mirror and applying the evms patches.

[Comment 3 Jason Cox (RETIRED) 2004-04-14 10:10:16 UTC]

emerge development-sources works as well :) Either way, I'm glad this boots.

[Comment 4 Martin Lindquist 2004-04-14 12:38:26 UTC]

Did you try it after patching dev sources, as that was what I was using initially -- emerge dev sources then patch, reboot, hang.  :(  (see first post }:-> ).  Grab 'virgin' source from kernel mirror, patch, reboot, joy.... weird thing was that I couldn't see where anything was being tweaked in the dev sources emergance...  ah well..