On my Sony PictureBook PCG-C1VN, 2.4.0 hangs in the boot
process while 2.4.0-prerelease boots just fine. At first I thought
the problem was devfs-related, but skipping devfsd just caused the
hang to occur a little later, this time in ifconfig. The kernel
call trace looked something like this:
neigh_ifdown
sys_ioctl
sock_ioctl
[some addresses in modules]
stext_lock
__down_failed
__down
What surprised me more was that attempting to remount the
root filesystem for writing just before this (to record the module
kernel symbols) caused a kenel BUG() in slab.c:1542 becuase kmalloc
was being called with a huge negative number.
I know I could run ksymoops to get this trace, but I now
think the cause of the problem probably happens much earlier than
the symptoms. So, I trying backing out different 2.4.0 changes.
So far, I can tell you that reverting the linux/mm subdirectory to
its 2.4.0-prerelease contents had no effect. I will let you know
if I diagnose or fix the problem, as I think you may be experiencing
the same problem.
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