On Monday 14 February 2005 12:33, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> Host kernel: Debian 2.4.27 kernel + skas3-2.4.25-v3 patch
> Guest kernel: Debian 2.6.9 kernel + uml-2.6.9-bs5 patch
>
> We are getting an intermittent hang (or perhaps kernel crash) on uml
> kernel bootup with this combination. The boot messages look like this:


>   Linux version 2.6.9-bs5-um-bs5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 
> (Debian
> 1:3.3.5-6)) #1 Thu Jan 27 21:41:43 EET 2005 Built 1 zonelists
>   Kernel command line: uml_dir=. con=pts con0=fd:0,fd:1 con1=tty:/dev/tty2
> ubd0=/data/mumlehd/vmi/haro/ubd0-flat.img
> ubd1=/data/mumlehd/vmi/haro/ubd1-flat.img
> eth0=tuntap,vm-tap-0,00:50:C2:3E:08:2A
> eth1=tuntap,vm-tap-1,00:50:C2:3E:08:2B
> eth2=tuntap,vm-tap-2,00:50:C2:3E:08:2C mem=24M root=98:0 PID hash table
> entries: 128 (order: 7, 2048 bytes)
>   Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
>   Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
>   Memory: 20568k available
>   Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
>   Checking for host processor cmov support...Yes
>   Checking for host processor xmm support...No
>   Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...OK
>   Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...OK
>   <hang>
>
> There might be an unfinished line printed after this, it isn't shown
> in our logs and since reproducing the problem is hard, we haven't
> managed to get better logs yet. Successful boots show these messages
> immediately after that:
>
>   Checking that host ptys support output SIGIO...Yes
>   Checking that host ptys support SIGIO on close...No, enabling workaround
>   Checking for /dev/anon on the host...Not available (open failed with
> errno 2) NET: Registered protocol family 16
>   ...
>
> We have managed to get this appear twice now and the problem seems to
> have arrived after we switched to those host and guest kernels. The
> low memory amount was there just for another test - the earlier hang
> was with a much higher memory amount. And, /tmp is tmpfs, just in case
> it matters.
In this case it shouldn't.
> Just throwing this here as an early report, to hear if somebody knows
> what might really be wrong.
Hmm... you could try updating to -bs7, however I don't think it's solved. Or 
to 2.6.11-rc4, maybe (or 2.6.11, when it's out).

-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade




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