I have run into an apparent anomaly while compiling/testing 2.5.59-bk. My
normal mode of operation is to do a daily bk pull to get the latest csets
and do a compile/boot run. After yesterday's I started seeing problems on
reboot. During the reboot I would get the OK booting the kernel followed
by a system freeze. After a forced reboot into a stock RedHat 8.0 2.4
kernel I would see the system misidentify my boot partiton as an ext2
partition and the following messages would appear:
EXT2-fs: ide0(3,8): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional feature
(4).
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:08
Following this I rebooted using my rescue CD and did an fsck on the
partition. It reported recovering the journal, but found no other
apparent corruption. Upon rebooting, the fsck noted an unclean shutdown,
but found the partition clean after checking it. No other anomalies were
noted.
However, the same thing happened this morning, so I did some investigating
and found that now, whenever I compile and boot from any 2.5.59 kernel I
get the above-described behaviour. I've even tried downloading a stock
tarball and using a default configuration. I've made the configuration
almost as simple as I could and still get the above behaviour.
At this point, I'm looking at my description and seeing there is very
little data I can provide that might be useful. My stuff is backed up,
and I can reformat and try again if necessary. I'm including some data
which seems relevant. The configuration file I used is attached. Nothing
interesting gets logged to /var/log/messages.
If someone wants to look into this, I'll keep things as they are.
Otherwise, I'll wipe and restart.
[root@dad scripts]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1343.085
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2680.42
[root@dad scripts]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev
03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 40)
00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master
IDE (rev 06)
00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16)
00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16)
00:04.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev
40)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-754 [DS-1E
Audio Controller]
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
08)
00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265
(rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP
1X/2X (rev 5c)
hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MDT MD100EB-00BHF0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LG CD-RW CED-8080B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hdb: 19541088 sectors (10005 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1216/255/63,
UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2
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