On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 21:58, Olivier Blin wrote: > > To be absolutely sure you applied it correctly, and it is working, can you > > type as root: > > > > while true ; do ls /dev/foo & rm -f /dev/foo & done > > > > better ctrl-c it after after a few 100 times. Than, check in ps ax if you > > have all these processes hanging in the "D" state. If so: patch is not > > applied correctly, or you are not running patched kernel. > > > > If it does not hang: your hang at boot is due to a different problem. > > It doesn't hang. > I've noticed that my old kernel, kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk, has the same problem on > boot, it also hang in depmod :-/
Oh yes, very sorry, I should've mentioned this too, Danny - older kernels also do the hang on boot for me if I don't change minilogd, the only option which boots correctly is failsafe. So I'm not convinced it's a kernel bug. -- adamw
