Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst related kernel problem?

[lurker <lurker@lavabit.com>]

On 08/01/08 15:46, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:34:09 lurker wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Often when I build systems with catalyst I encounter the following
>>
>> kernel freeze after the boot loader has completed:
>>> [ ... lots of kernel loading stuff which seems ok ... ]
>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
> 
> I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds, 
> the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox.
> 
> In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch 
> genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.

After upgrading to busybox-1.8.2 I've not experienced this any more.
Perhaps it's just a coincidence due to the random nature of this problem.


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