Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030298AbWISRAu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:00:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030307AbWISRAu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:00:50 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:14310 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030298AbWISRAt (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:00:49 -0400 Message-ID: <45102240.7040100@mbligh.org> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:00:48 -0700 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1 References: <20060919012848.4482666d.akpm@osdl.org> <45100272.505@mbligh.org> <20060919093122.d8923263.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060919093122.d8923263.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2675 Lines: 84 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:45:06 -0700 > "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > >>>- It took maybe ten hours solid work to get this dogpile vaguely >>> compiling and limping to a login prompt on x86, x86_64 and powerpc. >>> I guess it's worth briefly testing if you're keen. >> >>PPC64 blades shit themselves in a strange way. Possibly the udev >>breakage you mentioned? Hard to tell really if people are going to >>go around breaking userspace compatibility ;-( > > > What version of udev is it running? > > >>http://test.kernel.org/abat/48127/debug/console.log >> >>.. >> >>sda: Write Protect is off >>sda: cache data unavailable >>sda: assuming drive cache: write through >>SCSI device sda: 143374000 512-byte hdwr sectors (73407 MB) >>sda: Write Protect is off >>sda: cache data unavailable >>sda: assuming drive cache: write through >> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > >>sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sda >>creating device nodes .[: [0-9]*: bad number >>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2 >>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0 >>[: [0-9]*: bad number >>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2 >>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0 >>[: [0-9]*: bad number >>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2 >>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0 >>[: [0-9]*: bad number >>0:0:1:0: sg_io failed status 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2 >>0:0:1:0: sense key 0x5 ASC 0x24 ASCQ 0x0 >>[: [0-9]*: bad number >> >> > > > That all looks rather bad. > > >>ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names >>looking for init ... >>found /sbin/init >>/init: cannot open .//dev//console: no such file > > > Bizarrely-formed pathname. Does it always do that? Working one (-git3): http://test.kernel.org/abat/48064/debug/console.log Same sgio shit. no mention of /dev/console, but it's an error message, so not unexpected. > Has udev actually attempted to do anything by this stage? Buggered if I know. I always just turn it off on my machines. > I wasn't seeing anything that spectacular. It used to be the case that > udev simply hung. But in rc7-mm1 the symptoms are that incoming ssh > sessions hang, but most other things work OK. > > Oh well - Greg has split that tree apart and I shall not be pulling the > more problematic bits henceforth. OK, may not be that at all ... could be something entirely different. Just seemed co-incicental to your comments. M. - 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/