I think I hit a bug introduced between 2.4.1ac9 and 2.4.1ac10,
and a
really bad one I belive :(.
Bug description:
Distribution: Linux Mandrake 7.2
Machine Dual PIII-950, Asus CUBX-E motheboard, 256MB RAM
Compiler (kgcc -v):Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release)
Filesystem "loop" compiled as module, filesystem "iso9660" and
juliet
extension compiled in kernel.
Symptom: When trying to: mount blah.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop, the
console
hangs, Ctrl-C can not interrupt the command, kill can not kill the
stalled mount process and while rebooting none of the filesystems are
unmounted cleanly ( it squirts messeages like umount2: / is busy,
umount2: /home is busy, etc) and on restart the filesystems are checked
but fortunately no errors are found.
By greping the patch I see that some interlocks were added on
the loop
filesystem but I have no knowledge of the intricate mechanism of the
filesystem to correct the problem :(.
Kernel 2.4.1ac9 works OK from that point of view.
Please advise me how can I help with debugging of that further.
Thank you,
Mircea C.
> Kernel 2.4.1ac9 works OK from that point of view.
That was Im afraid pure luck. Jens is currently sorting out the loop problems
and has test patches
Those patches are online somewhere ???
If you need a hand (trained monkey willing to do compilings, testing
and traceing :) I'm here.
Mircea C.
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Kernel 2.4.1ac9 works OK from that point of view.
>
> That was Im afraid pure luck. Jens is currently sorting out the loop problems
> and has test patches
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:58:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Kernel 2.4.1ac9 works OK from that point of view.
>
> That was Im afraid pure luck. Jens is currently sorting out the
> loop problems and has test patches
By any chance, are these loop problems the same ones affecting
2.4.2-pre2 and -pre3?
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> > That was Im afraid pure luck. Jens is currently sorting out the
> > loop problems and has test patches
>
> By any chance, are these loop problems the same ones affecting
> 2.4.2-pre2 and -pre3?
And to varying degrees all 2.4.x kernels right now
All,
I just compiled 2.4.1-ac10 with the loop-3 patch from adoeb and it seems to fix
the loopback problems. This is for someone NOT using the encrypted FS since I
did not test this.
If anyone has a better way to make sure everything is working correctly other
than using mkinitrd to test if the loopback works then please let me know.
Thanks for the fix,
Sean
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:28:28 +0000 (GMT), Alan Cox said:
> > > That was Im afraid pure luck. Jens is currently sorting out the
> > > loop problems and has test patches
> >
> > By any chance, are these loop problems the same ones affecting
> > 2.4.2-pre2 and -pre3?
>
> And to varying degrees all 2.4.x kernels right now
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