I found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/168qrbx/gentoosources_6146_kernel_reports_io_error/
Lee 😎 On Mon, Oct 2, 2023, 12:14 AM Valmor F. de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10/1/23 20:29, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > > > Den 01.10.2023 21:31, skrev Frank Steinmetzger: > >> Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:25:46PM +0200 schrieb Håkon Alstadheim: > >>> Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel > >>>> on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my current > >>>> working kernel) to 6.1.53-gentoo-r1. No kernel I have built since is > >>>> able to boot. I have been following the same method for many years: > >>>> make > >>>> oldconfig, etc... > >>>> > >>>> The booting error starts at: > >>>> > >>>> [snip] > >>>> > >>>> * INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 > >>>> [snip] > >>>> * Starting cronie ... > >>>> * Starting DHCP Client Daemon ... > >>>> * Starting laptop_mode ... > >>>> * Mounting network filesystems ... > >>>> /etc/init.d/netmount: line 45 /lib/rc/bin/ewend: Input/output error > >>>> /lib/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 184: rmdir: command not found > >>>> INIT: > >>>> INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > >>>> INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > >>>> INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty" > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Can you show /etc/fstab and the console-log for the entire boot? > >>> Seems /sbin > >>> is not readable. You sure you have the kernel modules loaded? Are you > >>> using > >>> an initramfs? If so, does that build without errors ? > >> The input/output error – to me – indicates a hardware problem. When you > >> mounted the FS by hand, can you read ewend? For instance with md5sum. > >> > > except it boots ok with older kernels. When you've eliminated the > > impossible, whatever remains, however improbable has to be a kernel > > config change (missing&necessary or erroneous and unintended) , or > > initramfs failing to build/install correctly. Check error output from > > your kernel&initramfs build. > > > > Right it boots with 6.1.41. I started again from the config of 6.1.41 > and unset SRSO: > > -> diff linux/.config /boot/config-6.1.41-gentoo > 3c3 > < # Linux/x86 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 Kernel Configuration > --- > > # Linux/x86 6.1.41-gentoo Kernel Configuration > 5c5 > < CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (Gentoo 13.2.1_p20230826 p7) 13.2.1 20230826" > --- > > CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (Gentoo 12.3.1_p20230526 p2) 12.3.1 > 20230526" > 7c7 > < CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=130201 > --- > > CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=120301 > 455d454 > < # CONFIG_CPU_SRSO is not set > 457d455 > < # CONFIG_GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION is not set > 646d643 > < CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT=y > 3136d3132 > < CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2_SUBDEV_API=y > 3139,3140d3134 > < CONFIG_V4L2_FWNODE=m > < CONFIG_V4L2_ASYNC=m > 3236c3230,3233 > < CONFIG_VIDEO_CAMERA_SENSOR=y > --- > > > > # > > # Camera sensor devices > > # > 3295a3293 > > # end of Camera sensor devices > > Still no luck; kernel build has no errors. Boot hangs. > Thanks for the replies. Maybe 6.2 will not have this problem for my system. > -- > Valmor > >