On the two systems I've tried to set up with vanilla-sources 2.4.21, the kernel hangs just after listing the IDE Drives and/or SCSI cards. I'm afraid I don't have any good diagnostic messages since it just hangs. One of the systems is running a P4, and the other one is an Athlon XP, so it's not (obviously) processor related. If you need any other information, I'll see what I can do to get it for you. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile vanilla-sources 2.4.21. 2. Reboot. 3. Hang. Actual Results: Machine hangs during boot. Expected Results: Continued to boot. hydrogen root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 3dnow apm crypt gif imlib jpeg libg++ mad mmx ncurses nls pdflib png spell truetype xml2 zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline mysql tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python cdr apache2 curl gd innodb ipv6 maildir xml -oss -arts -avi -cups -encode -gpm -gtk -java -kde -gnome -mikmod -motif -mpeg -oggvorbis -opengl -qt -quicktime -sdl -svga -X -xmms -xv -snmp" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
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Be glad to look at your .config, but vanilla-sources is unpatched by the gentoo kernel team. That means, even if we have a known fix, it will not be applied. You may try one of the gentoo kernels. At least if we find a problem, we can do something about it. I consider 2.4.21 unstable, but upstream considers it stable, so thats how it will be marked in portage.
Thanks anyway... I'll try and find some time to test a Gentoo kernel on one of the servers. I'd prefer to run a vanilla kernel purely from a philisophical point of view, since this is supposed to be a backup production server, and I'd like as few patches as possible in the kernel. I agree that 2.4.21 seems unstable... I don't have any machines running it successfully.
Disclaimer: I am not a Gentoo Developer. Try configuring your kernel without ACPI support. There's been a lot of activity in this area on 2.5/6, some of which has been back ported. If this solves your problem, you might want to post your mobo model, chipset and bios rev. I'm assuming that you don't have this problem under 2.4.20 :-)
I have vanilla 2.4.21 happily running on one Pentium, one Pentium IV, one Athlon and one Athlon XP without any troubles.
I have vanilla-2.4.21 running perfectly on a Pentium 4, Athlon, and two Pentium (classic) machines. I would have to bet my sweet bippy that it's a config problem.
/me grimaces. I'm started to conclude that too... If anyone has the time, could you look over my config and see if there's any obvious problems?
FWIW, I have three machines that hang on disks during booting of the 2.5.75 kernel if I also have ACPI support compiled into the kernel. THey are one each of a Duron, Athlon XP and P4. My best _guess_ that the problem is related to ATA 133 capable IDE chipsets. But this is only a guess and I have nothing to back it with. Have you tried a kernel compiled without ACPI support? Also, what is the longest you've let your system hang before re-booting it? On two of my machines, they'll eventually responsd with bad interrupt messages. This is after waiting about 20 minutes.
Ignore me <<< We are having Bugzilla database issues.
