Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-12 Thread Jonathan Corbet
[Sorry for the slow response...naturally enough I'm in Europe and falling behind on things. On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:01:34 -0400 Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: I doubt it is directly related to locking. If (as you say) there is no crash in the logs then I suspect it is related to an

Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello, with the serial cable Richard gave me, I figured out what's causing a rare lockup during boot which has been riddling the XO-1 since when we moved to F11. The /etc/rc.sysinit script contains this line: # Sync waiting for storage. { rmmod scsi_wait_scan ; modprobe scsi_wait_scan ; rmmod

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Sebastian Silva
Laura an I are travelling accross the Interoceanic road equipped only with our 2 XO-1s loaded with your most excellent os240py image. This bug is most definitively the most annoying and I am so happy you seem to have found a workaround. I´ll probably try to comment out the line in rc.sysinit today

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Thu, 10-06-2010 a las 16:53 -0300, Daniel Drake escribió: 1 tty1 Ss+0:02 /sbin/init 945 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -e -c ?runlevel --set S /dev/null || true???/ 950 ?S 0:00 \_ /bin/bash /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 1597 ?D 0:00 \_ modprobe

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 June 2010 18:32, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: It's the camera controller. Hence, the other module being loaded must be cafe_ccic. Looking at the initialization of cafe_ccic, there seems to be a complicated dance of mutexes and spin locks, plus a kernel thread and a bunch

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Drake
On 10 June 2010 10:58, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello, with the serial cable Richard gave me, I figured out what's causing a rare lockup during boot which has been riddling the XO-1 since when we moved to F11. The /etc/rc.sysinit script contains this line:  # Sync

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Fox
daniel wrote: On 10 June 2010 18:32, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: It's the camera controller. Hence, the other module being loaded must be cafe_ccic. Looking at the initialization of cafe_ccic, there seems to be a complicated dance of mutexes and spin locks, plus a

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Fox
i forgot to give the link to the thread daniel refers to: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-June/thread.html#15432 i'm afraid there's not much to be drawn from there in the way of conclusions, though. paul paul wrote: daniel wrote: On 10 June 2010 18:32, Bernie Innocenti

Re: Reason for the one dot hang found!

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Martin
On 10 Jun 2010, at 20:53, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 10 June 2010 10:58, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello, with the serial cable Richard gave me, I figured out what's causing a rare lockup during boot which has been riddling the XO-1 since when we moved to F11.