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From: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.22
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:35:11 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308271127150.1491-100000@dhcp64-178.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308261327540.229@chaos>


On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> 
> I configured, built and booted Linux-2.4.22. There are
> some problems.
> 
> (1) `dmesg` fails to read the first part of the buffered
> kernel log. I have attached two files, dmesg-20 (normal)

sounds like the log buffer wrapped around from a lot of printks

> (3)  When umounting the root file-system, the machine usually
> hangs. The result is a long `fsck` on the next boot. The problem
> seems to be that sendmail doesn't get killed during the `init 0`
> sequence. It remains with a file open and the root file-system isn't
> unmounted. A temporary work-round is to `ifconfig eth0 down` before
> starting shutdown. Otherwise, sendmail remains stuck in the 'D' state.

this is likely the unshare_files change, which has been mentioned in
several threads as causing similar type issues...i posted a patch that
solves the issue, and Alan included a patch in his -ac series, which 
also addresses this issue.  

-Jason


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26 17:30 Linux-2.4.22 Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-27 15:35 ` Jason Baron [this message]
2003-08-27 15:40   ` Linux-2.4.22 Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-27 20:59     ` Linux-2.4.22 Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-01 20:45 ` Linux-2.4.22 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-01 21:14   ` Linux-2.4.22 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-09-02 12:57   ` Linux-2.4.22 Richard B. Johnson

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