Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263484AbTH0Pkn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:40:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263489AbTH0Pkn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:40:43 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:11136 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263484AbTH0Pkg (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:40:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:40:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Jason Baron cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.22 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 47 On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Jason Baron wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > I configured, built and booted Linux-2.4.22. There are > > some problems. > > > > (1) `dmesg` fails to read the first part of the buffered > > kernel log. I have attached two files, dmesg-20 (normal) > > sounds like the log buffer wrapped around from a lot of printks > Perhaps the buffer size was changed?? I'll look at the printks() I think there are the same number as before. > > (3) When umounting the root file-system, the machine usually > > hangs. The result is a long `fsck` on the next boot. The problem > > seems to be that sendmail doesn't get killed during the `init 0` > > sequence. It remains with a file open and the root file-system isn't > > unmounted. A temporary work-round is to `ifconfig eth0 down` before > > starting shutdown. Otherwise, sendmail remains stuck in the 'D' state. > > this is likely the unshare_files change, which has been mentioned in > several threads as causing similar type issues...i posted a patch that > solves the issue, and Alan included a patch in his -ac series, which > also addresses this issue. > > -Jason > Thanks, I'll check into it. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/