Bug 41255 – Inability to boot dev-sources >=2.6.2 final as well as mm-sources, hanging on intitialization of eth iface devices

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Nick Demchenko 2004-02-11 08:09:21 UTC]

Trying to boot a kenrel newer than 2.6.2 final vanilla or mm-sources the initialization process hangs on trying to initialize either eth0 or eth1 devices.

I reported that bug also at OSDL.org: [1].

If any more information is needed, please let me know, I'll give more with pleasure, just need to know which exactly.

And I don't think it is an issue of mm-sources, rather vanilla-sources (here dev-sources) - I even tried downloading the original ones without latest bk's, and building them - same result.

[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2071

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile the kernel with the .config submitted (provided you've got compatible components, I guess)
2. boot the kernel (a specified one)
3. wait till it comes to the eth0/eth1 initialization
Actual Results:  
Nothing happened but it hangs each time I try to boot it.

Expected Results:  
Initialize the eth devices and boot. And it shouldn't hang.

emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0,
2.6.2-rc2-mm1-n1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.2-rc2-mm1-n1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -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/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"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb dvd
encode esd firebird flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
gtkhtml imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozxmlterm mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl
nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline
ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype
x86 xchattext xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Nick Demchenko 2004-02-11 08:13:55 UTC]

Created attachment 25412 [details]
.config file

[Comment 2 Nick Demchenko 2004-02-11 14:11:13 UTC]

Created attachment 25433 [details]
Kernel OOPS

I believe it is due to hotplug. Trying to boot linux-2.6.3-rc2-love1 it
displays a message (see attachment) right after "Initializing PCI devices".
gentoo-dev-sources doesn't display any message, simply hangs.

[Comment 3 Nick Demchenko 2004-02-11 14:12:54 UTC]

Created attachment 25434 [details]
the new .config

This is the .config I use with love-sources-2.6.3_rc2-r1

[Comment 4 Nick Demchenko 2004-02-27 02:11:46 UTC]

Sorry for the delay. This bug was resolved.

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2106#c7