[2.4.22-pre4] hangs on init start with 'block clobbered'

[2.4.22-pre4] hangs on init start with 'block clobbered'

[J.A. Magallon]

Hi all...

Plain 2.4.22-pre4 hangs when tries to launch init. booting to runlevel 5 I get:

INIT: version 2.85 booting
INIT: Entering runlevel 5

malloc: block on free list clobbered
Stopping myself...Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

If i try to boot in singleuser (runlevel 1), the booting process just
stops after the version line.

Any ideas ?

Notes:
- Kernel is built with gcc-3.3.1 prerelease
- Previous kernels work fine (built with plain 3.3)(I did nor try -pre3)
- -pre2 does not emit the 'Entering...' message. ???

So I tend to blame gcc. Will try to rebuild -pre2 with gcc-3.3.1 to see
if the compiler is the reason. But if anyone has a clue, I would be
grateful.

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J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.22-pre2-jam1 (gcc 3.3 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3-2mdk))

Re: [2.4.22-pre4] hangs on init start with 'block clobbered'

[J.A. Magallon]

On 07.11, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> Plain 2.4.22-pre4 hangs when tries to launch init. booting to runlevel 5 I get:
> 
> INIT: version 2.85 booting
> INIT: Entering runlevel 5
> 
> malloc: block on free list clobbered
> Stopping myself...Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> If i try to boot in singleuser (runlevel 1), the booting process just
> stops after the version line.
> 
>

One more clue: I booted with init=/bin/bash. It got to the bash prompt.
I did an 'ls' (I was at /). It showed all the entries _DUPLICATED_ 
( two /bin, two /boot ....), and then panic'ed again.
So perhaps it is some code in the fs layer what is miscompiled...
The system hangs as soon as I touch the disk.

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.22-pre2-jam1 (gcc 3.3 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3-2mdk))