Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:37:54 -0400 | From | Shea Levy <> | Subject | Re: Hang with "runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1" on Linux 3.0.4 |
| |
On 09/29/2011 08:38 AM, shea@shealevy.com wrote: > Hello, > > My initrd mounts /proc and /sys, puts a tmpfs at /dev, then loads ext4. On > 2.6.39 (and earlier), this works fine and the initrd init continues > happily. On 3.0.4, however, the kernel spits out > >> request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 > a few times then hangs. If I drop into a shell before loading ext4 and run > modprobe unix, the same problem occurs. The modprobe used is dynamically > linked with glibc (which is included in the initrd), and it is the same > modprobe on the working and non-working systems. From my searches, it > appears that CONFIG_UNIX=y instead of =m would probably solve this > problem, but I'd rather keep it as a module if it's possible to get it > working. What's going wrong here? Why does it work on 2.6.39 but not > 3.0.4? > > Regards, > Shea Levy > > -- > 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/
CC'ing af_unix.c maintainers. Also, I had the same problem with 3.0.
| |