Hi all, I've been having some trouble with kernel upgrades on my laptop for some time now, and I've run out of ideas on how to fix it. The machine in question is running Mandrake Cooker. The current kernel version is 2.6.3-4mdk. If I install any newer kernel (from Cooker RPMs), the machine will boot to the point where it tries to remount / read-write and it will hang. If I hit CTRL-C at this point, the boot process will continue, but / will be read-only of course, which isn't very helpful. Trying to remount,rw in this state is unsuccessful; the new calls to mount also block (presumably waiting on the first one to finish).
I've tried all sorts of things, including altering the startup files so that it straces mount when trying to do the remount. I know that it is blocking internally on the call to the mount syscall. The partition in question is XFS. The only odd thing I've noticed is that mounting the initrd shows a completely different xfs module file to the one in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. I have tried rebuilding the initrd, though I didn't set any specific options. I have done numerous complete-system-upgrades. All to no avail. Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here? Thanks, James. -- "Now, there are no problems only opportunities. However, this seemed to be an insurmountable opportunity." - http://www.surfare.net/~toolman/temp/diagram.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
