[gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,

After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII,
re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a
highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel
it's time to call on the authorities.

Don't even have gpm so I can't scroll the choice bits
of the boot messages.

It all starts to fall apart on the following line in
the boot console

* Starting udev...

then

udevd[367]: init_udevd socket: error getting socket:
Address family not supported by protocol
error initializing udevd socket
udevd[367]: main: error initializing udevd socket [!!]
<...>
* Checking root filesystem...
Failed to open the device '/dev/hda3': No such file or
directory

* Filesystem couldn't be fe fixed :(              [!!]
Give root password for maintenance

/dev/hda3 is reiserfs and reiserfs support is
configured into the kernel as is ATA and IDE support.
/etc/fstab is the same one(modified for different
partitioning systems, of course) I've been using for
years. /etc/fstab is not the problem.

Yes, I did this:

File systems --->
  Pseudo filesystems --->
    [*] /proc file system support
    [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm
fs)

And have baselayout-1.12.9.

When I chroot from the livecd(2005.1) everything seems
to work; the modules all load, the software works etc.

So, I'm at a complete loss.

FWIW, when I do boot the maintenance console and run
udevstart the system crashes forcing a reset. 

-mw



       
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[Devon Miller]

Check that you have CONFIG_UNIX=y in your .config. The  udev daemon
(udevd) listens on a unix domain socket. When udevd doesn't run your
hda3 device is not created in /dev which explains the later messages.
I'm not sure why udevstart would crash your system though. Do you get
a kernel oops or does it just reboot?

dcm

On 4/11/07, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII,
> re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a
> highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel
> it's time to call on the authorities.
>
> Don't even have gpm so I can't scroll the choice bits
> of the boot messages.
>
> It all starts to fall apart on the following line in
> the boot console
>
> * Starting udev...
>
> then
>
> udevd[367]: init_udevd socket: error getting socket:
> Address family not supported by protocol
> error initializing udevd socket
> udevd[367]: main: error initializing udevd socket [!!]
> <...>
> * Checking root filesystem...
> Failed to open the device '/dev/hda3': No such file or
> directory
>
> * Filesystem couldn't be fe fixed :(              [!!]
> Give root password for maintenance
>
> /dev/hda3 is reiserfs and reiserfs support is
> configured into the kernel as is ATA and IDE support.
> /etc/fstab is the same one(modified for different
> partitioning systems, of course) I've been using for
> years. /etc/fstab is not the problem.
>
> Yes, I did this:
>
> File systems --->
>   Pseudo filesystems --->
>     [*] /proc file system support
>     [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm
> fs)
>
> And have baselayout-1.12.9.
>
> When I chroot from the livecd(2005.1) everything seems
> to work; the modules all load, the software works etc.
>
> So, I'm at a complete loss.
>
> FWIW, when I do boot the maintenance console and run
> udevstart the system crashes forcing a reset.
>
> -mw
>
>
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[Fabio]

I think you did not enable the Unix Domain Sockets in your make menuconfig:

Networking ->
  Networking Support ->
    Networking Options ->
       Unix Domain Sockets

This is the same thing Devon was talking about.

On 11/04/07, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII,
> re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a
> highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel
> it's time to call on the authorities.
>
> Don't even have gpm so I can't scroll the choice bits
> of the boot messages.
>
> It all starts to fall apart on the following line in
> the boot console
>
> * Starting udev...
>
> then
>
> udevd[367]: init_udevd socket: error getting socket:
> Address family not supported by protocol
> error initializing udevd socket
> udevd[367]: main: error initializing udevd socket [!!]
> <...>
> * Checking root filesystem...
> Failed to open the device '/dev/hda3': No such file or
> directory
>
> * Filesystem couldn't be fe fixed :(              [!!]
> Give root password for maintenance
>
> /dev/hda3 is reiserfs and reiserfs support is
> configured into the kernel as is ATA and IDE support.
> /etc/fstab is the same one(modified for different
> partitioning systems, of course) I've been using for
> years. /etc/fstab is not the problem.
>
> Yes, I did this:
>
> File systems --->
>   Pseudo filesystems --->
>     [*] /proc file system support
>     [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm
> fs)
>
> And have baselayout-1.12.9.
>
> When I chroot from the livecd(2005.1) everything seems
> to work; the modules all load, the software works etc.
>
> So, I'm at a complete loss.
>
> FWIW, when I do boot the maintenance console and run
> udevstart the system crashes forcing a reset.
>
> -mw
>
>
>
>
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>


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[gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-04-12, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> It looks like the kernel can't find the / device.
>
> The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so 
> first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled in 
> the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in there....). Please post 
> your .config

Ya gotta love the Linux tradition of making big, incompatible
changes between minor revs.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:52 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> > The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so 
> > first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled
> > in the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in there....). Please post 
> > your .config  
> 
> Ya gotta love the Linux tradition of making big, incompatible
> changes between minor revs.

Actually, the PATA stuff didn't move. New (experimental) drivers were
introduced, but the standard is still in the same place and works exactly
as before.

The SATA drivers were moved, something that should have been handled by
oldconfig but wasn't :(


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[mereandor]

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Am Donnerstag 12 April 2007 17:23 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:52 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > The whole IDE/ATA/SATA/PATA/SCSI layout hingy changed with 2.6.19, so
> > > first thing to check is that everything you need is actually enabled
> > > in the kernel (yeah, there's some gotchas in there....). Please post
> > > your .config
> >
> > Ya gotta love the Linux tradition of making big, incompatible
> > changes between minor revs.
>
> Actually, the PATA stuff didn't move. New (experimental) drivers were
> introduced, but the standard is still in the same place and works exactly
> as before.
>
> The SATA drivers were moved, something that should have been handled by
> oldconfig but wasn't :(

For that reason i prefer to do a:

make oldconfig 2>/tmp/config.log && less /tmp/config.log

So you see when a config symbol was renamed.

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disasterFIXED

[maxim wexler]

--- Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@gmail.com> wrote:

> Check that you have CONFIG_UNIX=y in your .config.
 
Bingo! Thanks Devon! 

-Maxim 



       
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster

[Renat Golubchyk]

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Hi!

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:02:54 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler
<blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> After running make menuconfig 4x on a PIII,
> re-emerging --emptytree world and either booting to a
> highly unstable system or a maintenance login I feel
> it's time to call on the authorities.
> 
> Don't even have gpm so I can't scroll the choice bits
> of the boot messages.

You don't need gpm for that. SHIFT-PgUp and SHIFT-PgDn can do that
too. ;-)

And the following excerpt from /etc/conf.d/rc might help in debugging
boot problems:
=======================
# RC_BOOTLOG will generate a log of the boot messages shown on the
# console. Useful for headless machines or debugging.  You need to
# emerge the app-admin/showconsole package for this to work.  Note that
# this probably won't work correctly with boot splash.

RC_BOOTLOG="no"
=======================


Cheers,
Renat

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