I have a problem with all my systems (all gentoo, via c3, pentium 4M and AMD64). When I start the kernel starts to dump and prints lots of information, too fast to read it, but it seam to be some hex values and the list of modules loaded. It mostly starts on bootup after "switching to runlevel 3", but sometimes it happens while other things, mostly disc-intensive stuff (sync, regenerating cache). It happens in a lot of different configurations: devfsd xor udev w/, w/o nvidia module (not on c3 - has no nvidia) I can not guess where the problem could be, because I can not reproduce it all the time and I don't know how to freeze the screen to read some more details. RAM is ok - checked on all systems And I imagine it first happens after some 2.6.7 kernel (mid july), but I am not sure. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: not sure - reboot some times From my Athlon 64: Portage 2.0.51-r2 (gcc34-amd64-2004.1, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/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="X X509 aalib acpi alsa amd64 apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts chroot crypt cups dvd encode ethereal f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jce jpeg junit kde kerberos libg++ libwww mikmod mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres pwdb python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora truetype unicode usagi usb xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib linguas_de" rc-update -s : alsasound | default apache2 | aumix | bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot crypto-loop | cupsd | default domainname | boot esound | famd | hdparm | hostname | boot hotplug | default ip6tables | iptables | keymaps | boot lisa | local | default nonetwork localmount | boot metalog | boot mit-krb5kadmind | mit-krb5kdc | modules | boot nas | net.eth0 | default net.lo | boot netmount | default netperf | nfs | nfsmount | nscd | ntop | ntp-client | ntpd | numlock | openntpd | pg_autovacuum | portmap | postgresql | racoon | reslisa | rmnologin | boot rsyncd | samba | serial | boot slapd | slpd | slurpd | sshd | default tomcat5 | urandom | boot vsftpd | winbind | xdm | default xfs | xinetd | default xprint |
Created attachment 42630 [details] kernel config from athlon64 here is the config of my athlon 64
Is the system bootable despite all the messages flying past? Can you confirm that you don't have kernel debugging enabled in your .config?
The system is not bootable when this happens. And the output never stops. I have set CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to have the possibility to use magic sysrq (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ) - nothing more. Is there any possibility to "freeze" the screen to read the content? I tried to do a photo, put it wasn't very good...
Could you see if the issue is still present with development-sources-2.6.10-rc1? Also, one possible way you could catch some error messages is with a serial console. Is this an option for you?
Created attachment 43208 [details] dmesg output Ok, I was wrong with my thougt that nothing works, than this happens. I now have a dmesg-output of these things. It allways mentions the process consolelog.sh (which has as its only line: echo "$1 [$2] $3" >/dev/vc/10 ), part of metalog.
Eeesh! The first entry in that attachment is the 1975th oops that has occured since bootup, thats quite an achievement ;) If you remove metalog from your runlevels, do you still encounter the problem?
ok, my problem seems to be de duplicate of #65164
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65164 ***
