Messages in this thread |  | | From | Johannes Kloos <> | Subject | Re: strange hangs with kernel 2.4.12 (and 13) | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:00:17 +0000 (UTC) |
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Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got some strange problems here, since 2.4.12 (2.4.10 was ok, I > never tried .11) 2.4.10 was the first kernel that broke for me.
> I've got seveal processes hanging in "D" state, especially devfsd. I > think something with devfs and/or devfsd is broken here. If I kill > devfsd before, the problem does not arise (but I need devfsd :-) I've had this problem as well - it seems there's a deadlock in devfs. I have sent a mail to Richard Gooch about this some days ago, but he hasn't responded yet. I will resend my bug report to the list then.
> Now, It gets even more strange: The problem does only exist if I > deactivate ACPI! I tried with a ACPI enabled kernel with the command > line "acpi=off", I tried on a machine which is too old for ACPI, and I > even compiled a kernel without ACPI at all. Everywhere the same problem. > When I boot with activated ACPI, there's no problem. I don't know about this.
> Any hints? If someone could tell me what I should try or which debug > info could be useful, please let me know! > > TIA, Michael >
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