From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: udevd / ext4 issue mounting 2.6.35-rc5 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:06:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ubuntu Kernel Team , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel J Blueman Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Hi Luis, > > On 21 July 2010 01:36, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> I have been reluctant to boot to 2.6.35-rc due to the large set of >> regression list and the amount of work I needed to actually get done >> on 2.6.35. Last I checked the regression list it was getting small so >> I gave it a spin today. No luck. I get some bootup error from udevd >> and ext2/ext3/ext4, something like this: >> >> EXT3-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional >> features (240) >> EXT2-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional >> features (240) >> EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) > > This succeeded. Heh, OK :) >> VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1 >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 708k freed >> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 102040k >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 764k freed >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 1796k freed >> udevd: failed to create queue file: No such file or directory >> udevd: error creating queue file > > It looks like you need to enable: > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Thanks, it also turned out that when I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04 it replaced my own /sbin/installkernel so this was likely another issue. My /sbin/installkernel changes allow for easy initramfs installation on Debian/Ubuntu but my patches have been ignored my the maintainer. --- installkernel-ubuntu-10.04 2010-07-21 18:03:34.607678010 -0700 +++ installkernel 2010-01-29 13:17:10.000000000 -0800 @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ # Create backups of older versions before installing updatever () { if [ -f "$dir/$1-$ver" ] ; then - mv "$dir/$1-$ver" "$dir/$1-$ver.old" + #mv "$dir/$1-$ver" "$dir/$1-$ver.old" + rm -f "$dir/$1-$ver" "$dir/$1-$ver.old" fi cat "$2" > "$dir/$1-$ver" @@ -75,5 +76,16 @@ if [ -f "$config" ] ; then updatever config "$config" fi + +LSB_RED_ID=$(/usr/bin/lsb_release -i -s) + +case $LSB_RED_ID in +"Ubuntu") + update-initramfs -c -k $ver + update-grub + ;; +*) + ;; +esac exit 0 But anyway I also now get another boot failure with: mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/images/2010/bleh-boot-2.6.35-rc5.jpg Luis