Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 1998 01:09:46 -0600 | From | Sean Connor <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.95 - umount freeze |
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:14:27AM -0500, Daniel Nash wrote:
> I just recently decided to try upgrading 2.0.33 -> 2.1.95; This is my > first foray into the 2.1 series. I quite easily got a mostly working > system, with sound, SCSI, UDMA, and so on. My only problem is that umount > rarely works. Most of the time (I'll get to that), umount freezes when > used on any filesystem. Particularly, it completely freezes its terminal > and can't be killed by kill -9. It shows up as a 'D' process > (suspended/kernel call, right?), and gdb traces show it going into the > umount syscall but not coming out. Mount and /proc/mounts continue to work.
Uh-huh. Same problem I was having.
> I've got the following disk hardware (with attempts): > AHA152x (zip zoom) with SCSI Zip drive, as module, compiled in, or not > compiled > Promise Ultra33 UDMA PCI (not booting from, just mounting a FAT partition), > always compiled in > Onboard 430HX chipset IDE with two DMA hard disks and an ATAPI cdrom, cdrom > as module or compiled in > Standard floppy compiled in or as module > > RH5-based system (glibc), mount 2.7l and everything else as per the Changes > file, UP system with UP kernel. > > Any suggestions? I'm out of ideas.
I replaced fs/super.c with the version from 2.1.93. This seems to have stopped the freezes.
(I use RH5 too... No scsi controller or UDMA controller; different onboard IDE controller (PIIX3)...)
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