Bug 144175 – pcmcia-cs getting stuck on boot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Nikhil Sethi 2006-08-16 21:55:55 UTC]

On boot, init stops with this message:

* Starting pcmcia
cardmgr[6038]: watching 3 sockets.

nothing happens after this.
dmesg has folloing to say:

pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.

$ rc-status
Runlevel: default
 net.eth1                                                           [ started  ]
 cupsd                                                              [ stopped  ]
 hdparm                                                             [ started  ]
 vixie-cron                                                         [ stopped  ]
 dbus                                                               [ stopped  ]
 local                                                              [ stopped  ]
 sshd                                                               [ stopped  ]
 nfsmount                                                           [ stopped  ]
 ntp-client                                                         [ stopped  ]
 i8k                                                                [ stopped  ]
 xdm                                                                [ started  ]
 acpid                                                              [ started  ]
 pcmcia                                                             [ started  ]
 metalog                                                            [ started  ]
 alsasound                                                          [ started  ]
 gpm                                                                [ stopped  ]
 microcode_ctl                                                      [ stopped  ]

xdm had started before pcmcia, so I could log on. then manually stop/start pcmcia and net.eth1 (wireless).

kernel and pcmcia version
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-r2

$ emerge info
*** Deprecated use of action 'info', use '--info' instead
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa bitmap-fonts caps cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvdr emacs encode foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 ieee1394 imap imlib isdnlog jpeg ldap libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl ogg opengl pam pcmcia pdflib png pppd qt3 qt4 readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis wifi xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_en_US userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

I will be happy to provide any other info.
Am going to try out installing pcmciautils as suggested by the webpage mentioned in the dmesg output. Will let you know if that solves the problem. This problem surfaced in past week or so.

[Comment 1 Nikhil Sethi 2006-08-16 22:10:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)

Yup. That worked.

emerge pcmciautils && emerge -C pcmcia-cs

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-16 22:26:43 UTC]

Closing then. See Bug 131935 for pcmcia-cs deprecation.