Bug 50915 – Kernel 2.6.6 fails to boot due to interrupt loss

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description André Terpstra 2004-05-13 02:37:17 UTC]

I've just compiled the vanilla kernel 2.6.6
It fails to complete the boot sequence due to a loss of interrupt on /dev/hdc (my DVD-ROM drive)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Kernel boot seqeunce hangs

Expected Results:  
Normal startup

bash-2.05b# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.12
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
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
/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 /var/www/localhost/htdocs//mythweb/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://GentooMirror/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://GentooMirror/gentoo-portage"
USE="S3TC X X509 aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid avi
berkdb bsh cdr cgi cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd dvdr encode esd
fbcon foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit freetype fs gdbm gif gphoto2
gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg kde kerberos
krb4 lcd ldap libg++ libwww mad md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg
msn mysql nas ncurses nls nvidia oav odbc offensive oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl
openssh oss pam pcap pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba
scanner sdl skey slang slp snmp spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff transcode
truetype type1 unicode usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-05-13 04:27:40 UTC]

who is in kernel@g.o and who is in x86-kernel@g.o
which bugs should be assigned to which team `?

[Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-05-14 14:00:27 UTC]

Please post the kernel messages that happen when you boot.  Without them, it 
is impossible to help you out.

[Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-05-14 14:01:25 UTC]

see previous comment...

[Comment 4 André Terpstra 2004-05-15 01:39:36 UTC]

Well I'm having some problems pasting the exact kernel messages. Of course I switched to a previous kernel version to get booted correctly. Apparently, when I temporarily boot the 2.6.6 kernel its messages do not get written to or remain in /var/log/messages. So I repeat a few messages partly by hand. The last kernel messages were:

--------------------------
hda: xxxx sectors .....
  /dev/ide/host0/target0/lun0: p1 ...
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdc: lost interrupt
---------------------------

and these last 2 lines repeat after a few seconds. At this point nothing works, not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I have to perform a hard reset.

[Comment 5 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2004-06-20 05:13:22 UTC]

Does this happen with development-sources-2.6.7? Did it happen with previous 2.6 kernels you used (if any)?

[Comment 6 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-06-21 11:40:38 UTC]

This is an upstream problem, please file a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org if it
still happens for you on the 2.6.7 kernel.