On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:55:56PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote:
I was using 5.4-RC1 until today. Today I attempted to update to 5.4, but I can't get into single-user mode without a panic. I'm just about certain that this is because of the work in progress in that ata-raid driver right now. I'm using a Promise FastTrack S150 TX2Plus, and it's not happy with the recent changes. I'd be glad to help test the changes, but right now I'm more concerned with getting my system in a stable shape. I want to go back to 5.4-RC1, but I can't seem to get the CVS tag right.
Release candidates are not tagged. You can use a specific date with the -D option to roll back to before they were committed. This is also more helpful because you can isolate the specific change that caused you problems.
Unfortunately by now it might be too late to get this fixed for 5.4-RELEASE, but at least it can be fixed soon afterwards if there is a problem.
It's not a problem with the ata stuff after all. It's definitely something else.
I've managed to get 5.4-RELEASE installed, but I absolutely cannot get into single-user mode. I've tried selecting option 4 from the boot menu and just running a "shutdown now" from multiuser mode.
When it gets to the point of asking what shell I want to run, usually the system just freezes. I can hit scroll lock to go back and read the dmesg, but there's no way I'm going to get a shell prompt. I can't type. Alternately, sometimes I'll get a page fault panic as soon as I hit a key - this is what usually happens if I'm trying to get into single-user mode via shutdown.
If it doesn't panic, I can press ctrl-alt-delete (this is on i386 by the way) and I'll get a message about how it can't write to /var/db/mixer0-state or write other things to /var... which isn't surprising since I couldn't get to a shell prompt to mount anything in the first place. I don't understand why it's trying to mess with /var at all.
I think something about my configuration must be fouled up. I don't think it's 5.4. Sorry for the confusion.
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