Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-17 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:43:23PM -0700, Alan wrote: Shouldn't ext3 be compiled into the main kernel and not a module? And Reiser, XFS, JFS as well ;-) I wonder what amount of memory this would waste. There are too many filesystems around for this IMO. -- Michal Suchanek

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-17 Thread Alan
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 03:57 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I wonder should it not be in FAQ somewhere The steps below are pretty much what I did before. pretty much is not enough. When I compile kernel it boots. But I know *why* it did not boot. mkinitrd wants /dev/loop which is not

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-17 Thread Alan
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 03:57 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Here is the oops from the current crash. It is the same as the old crash. fs/devfs/base.c has the offending call. Also attached is the dmesg from the boot. You will see a number of odd messages associated with the zip drive. (The

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Alan
On Monday 15 April 2002 11:06 pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Yes, there are more changes than I expected actually. Which means it may not even work at all. If you remove ungrok_partitions and use --ignore-whitespace the -2, -3 and -4 patches apply. Still, it may be left in some messy state.

RE: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
SUGGESTION: Could the patches to the kernel source please be included in the kernel-source rpm? No unless you test them and confirm that they work. :-) I am speaking of patches applied to the kernel in general. it would be nice to have a copy of all the patches applied

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Alan
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 12:30 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: SUGGESTION: Could the patches to the kernel source please be included in the kernel-source rpm? No unless you test them and confirm that they work. :-) I am speaking of patches applied to the kernel in

RE: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Huh? It is what kernel SRPM is for :-) Yick. Forgot about that... SRPMS for a source RPM? Who woulda thunk it... Well, I need to check the .config file on this beast. I wonder should it not be in FAQ somewhere cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper edit Makefile - change EXTRAVERSION to

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel halts with the following message: EXT2-fs: ide0(3,5): could'nt mount because of uunsupported optional features (4). Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Can you copy here your /etc/fstab? -- Guillaume Cottenceau -

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Alan
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:41 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Huh? It is what kernel SRPM is for :-) Yick. Forgot about that... SRPMS for a source RPM? Who woulda thunk it... Well, I need to check the .config file on this beast. I wonder should it not be in FAQ somewhere The steps

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread OS
I'll go along with that. I was about to submit a report about this but then saw this thread. I have noticed the system will degrade in the same way if my parprt Zip drive is attached after the system has booted. When installing 8.2 / Cooker I had the Zip drive attached. Having never done this

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-16 Thread Alan
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 01:51 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The kernel halts with the following message: EXT2-fs: ide0(3,5): could'nt mount because of uunsupported optional features (4). Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Can you

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-15 Thread Alan
On Sunday 14 April 2002 09:09 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: ÷ ðÔÎ, 12.04.2002, × 21:59, Alan ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: I believe it is the zip drive that it is choking in. The oops happens in scan_dir_for_removable(). (The only removable devices are two scsi cd-rom drives and an ide Zip drive. The zip

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-15 Thread Alan
On Monday 15 April 2002 04:16 pm, Alan wrote: On Sunday 14 April 2002 09:09 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: ÷ ðÔÎ, 12.04.2002, × 21:59, Alan ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: I believe it is the zip drive that it is choking in. The oops happens in scan_dir_for_removable(). (The only removable devices are two scsi

RE: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-15 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I really wish that these patches were merged. They overlap in this one section repeatedly. (ide-floppy-2.diff makes changes that get deleted in ide-floppy-3.diff, for example.) All failures are in modifying drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c ide-floppy-2.diff failed hunk #14 at line 1740.

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
÷ ðÔÎ, 12.04.2002, × 21:59, Alan ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: I believe it is the zip drive that it is choking in. The oops happens in scan_dir_for_removable(). (The only removable devices are two scsi cd-rom drives and an ide Zip drive. The zip drive is the only one that gets classed as removable to my

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-13 Thread Joseph Davidson
I am seeing this same exact problem. I have an IDE ZIP that is supermounted, and about once a day (when msec_find runs), I get an Oops in scan_dir_for_removeable(). I placed some code in the function that prints out dir-name. It appears the Oops occurs when attempting to access

[Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-12 Thread Alan
This is pretty nasty. This is using the stock kernel from Mandrake 8.2. I expect that similar problems exist in the cooker version. What happens is that after some indeterminate time period, the system does not allow you to start new processes. Already existing processes run, but new

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-12 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
÷ ðÔÎ, 12.04.2002, × 21:30, Alan ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: This is pretty nasty. This is using the stock kernel from Mandrake 8.2. I expect that similar problems exist in the cooker version. What happens is that after some indeterminate time period, the system does not allow you to start new processes.

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-12 Thread Alan
On Friday 12 April 2002 10:50 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: ÷ ðÔÎ, 12.04.2002, × 21:30, Alan ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: This is pretty nasty. This is using the stock kernel from Mandrake 8.2. I expect that similar problems exist in the cooker version. What happens is that after some indeterminate time

Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem in devfs

2002-04-12 Thread Alan
On Friday 12 April 2002 10:50 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: ÷ ðÔÎ, 12.04.2002, × 21:30, Alan ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: This is pretty nasty. This is using the stock kernel from Mandrake 8.2. I expect that similar problems exist in the cooker version. What happens is that after some indeterminate time