Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264449AbTFECT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:19:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264447AbTFECT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:19:29 -0400 Received: from orion.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.90]:11269 "EHLO orion.netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264449AbTFECTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:19:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:33:49 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Andrew Morton Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk+ broken networking Message-ID: <20030605023349.GH24515@conectiva.com.br> Mail-Followup-To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Andrew Morton , shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030604161437.2b4d3a79.shemminger@osdl.org> <3EDE7FEB.2C7FAEC7@digeo.com> <20030604185652.31958d1f.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030604185652.31958d1f.akpm@digeo.com> X-Url: http://advogato.org/person/acme Organization: Conectiva S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 38 Em Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:56:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton escreveu: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > > > Test machine running 2.5.70-bk latest can't boot because eth2 won't > > > come up. The same machine and configuration successfully brings up > > > all the devices and runs on 2.5.70. > > > > kjournald is stuck waiting for IO to complete against some buffer > > during transaction commit. > > > > I'd be suspecting block layer or device drivers. What device driver > > is handling your /var/log? > > I take that back. > > Your sysrq-T woke up syslogd which did a synchronous write which poked > kjournald. You happened to catch it in mid-commit. So that's all normal > and sane. > > Something is up with netdevice initialisation. My eth0 (e100) is in a > strange half-there state and won't come up. Reverting the post-2.5.70 e100 > changes does not help. It's something which went into the tree today I > think. Strange as I'm using 2.5.70-latest-bk as of 30 minutes ago, i.e. uptodate with Linus + my network patches. Thing is related to nfs, please nfs loading at boot time and try again, worked for me, don't know what is wrong with nfs loading tho (haven't checked at all, just disabled loading of the nfs server) :-( - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/