Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <> | Subject | Total machine lockup w/ current kernels while installing from CD | Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 03:22:14 +0200 |
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Hi, I've built a CD that installs a customized system; basically what it does is boot from CD (iso9660) and run
mke2fs -m0 -j -O dir_index,filetype,has_journal,sparse_super /dev/hda1 mount -text3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dest rpm -r /mnt/dest -ivh /RPMS/*
This worked perfectly up until some recent kernel updates - with current kernels (both Linus and -mm branch), the system locks up totally at a random point during rpm installation (everything goes down, including the NumLock LED etc).
I'm currently building some old kernels to see when this problem was introduced and sort out what patch did it. With 2.6.16-rc6, the problem occurs, but unlike later revisions it gives an error message before freezing:
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
Pid: 421, comm: kjournald EIP: 0060:[<b01a2f52>] CPU: 0 EIP is at journal_commit_transaction+0x92e/0xfcc EFLAGS: 00000297 Not tainted (2.6.16-rc6 #1) EAX: 00000001 EBX: c2d34788 ECX: 00000001 EDX: c785e000 ESI: b3ff8d04 EDI: 000000f0 EBP: b683b840 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0841f7fc CR3: 17217000 CR4: 000006d0 [<b02bd52e>] schedule+0x2ee/0x5b6 [<b01a6a88>] kjournald+0x201/0x213 [<b0111089>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x32/0x49 [<b01a6937>] kjournald+0xb0/0x213 [<b01a5ffa>] commit_timeout+0x0/0x9 [<b012a789>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x4b [<b01a6887>] kjournald+0x0/0x213 [<b0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
I'll keep trying to isolate which patch introduced this; at the moment the last known working kernel is 2.6.15 (and 2.6.15-mm4), the first known broken one is 2.6.16-rc6; the ones in between are still waiting for the compile box. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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