From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754082AbXKYL5p (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:57:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752032AbXKYL5h (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:57:37 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:34740 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752031AbXKYL5g (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:57:36 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:15:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Bob Tracy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky References: <20071118052036.11B45DBA2@gherkin.frus.com> <20071124223835.ddd5f6e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071124223835.ddd5f6e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711251315.17989.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, 25 of November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:20:36 -0600 (CST) rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob Tracy) wrote: > > > Completely reproducible... 2.6.23-rc3 kernel boots, and normal messages > > are seen on console as far as disks found and partitions on each. However, > > once /dev is populated and the boottime scripts attempt to check filesystem > > status, no partitions on either of the two disks attached to the SCSI > > controller are seen. Dropping into a single-user root shell confirms > > the sudden "blindness": fdisk can't open /dev/sda. > > > > When I reboot on 2.6.24-rc2, everything works normally. > > > > System environment is Debian Etch. Both 2.6.24-rc2 and -rc3 were built > > from the respective unaltered kernel.org source trees, using the same > > kernel configuration modulo saying "no" to CONFIG_SENSORS_I5K_AMB and > > CONFIG_PID_NS in -rc3. No problems with -rc3 on a x86 box. > > Could be something change in sysfs. Please double-check the config > options, make sure that something important didn't get disabled. > > Failing that, it would be great if you could bisect this down to the > offending commit. http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has help. > > Richard, Ivan: have you seen anything like this? > > Meanwhile, I guess we should track this as another post-2.6.23 regression > please. Added to the list, http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457 . Thanks, Rafael