First of all, congratulations to every kernel developer, as 2.1 is maturing
very fast :) That's the good news. The bad, for me anyway, are the following:
2.1.123: while booting, I get a message like "syslogd: cannot open /dev/log:
invalid argument" or so. From then, any message is logged to the console, and
no modules can be load. If I try to manually modprobe unix.o, nothing happens.
But if I insmod it, everything goes OK then. Or so it seems... 2.1.122
performs ok. I tried to recompile modutils 2.1.121, to no avail. I suspected
of unix.o when no X connections could be made...
2.1.119: some kind of CDs make my IDE CD-ROM drive to hang at mount. I think
this is a known problem, that's why I was so interested in trying 2.1.123.
/var/log/messages says things like this:
-----8<-----
Oct 4 20:50:30 xinef kernel: hdc: ATAPI 34X CDROM drive, 128kB Cache
Oct 4 20:50:30 xinef kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.13
Oct 4 20:50:41 xinef kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 4 20:50:41 xinef kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Oct 4 20:50:41 xinef kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Oct 4 20:50:41 xinef kernel: Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Oct 4 20:50:41 xinef kernel: Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred --
(asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
-----8<-----
It is known to occur with cdrecord-1.6, as it seems to create "Joliet level 3"
extensions. A SCSI CD-ROM drive mounts the CD without a glitch.
OTOH, 2.1.122 has the (known) problem of not unloading/reloading properly SB
modules, and so my hope was with 2.1.123. 2.1.124-pre2 has the same /dev/log
problem.
System is an UP i586, ASUS P55T2P4 mobo, ASUS IDE CD-ROM, RH5.1, everything
updated to Oct 4.
Thanks for your time. I am available for any info request. I would like to
contribute with my testing (Andreas knows it :)
Regards.
--- Francisco Rodrigo Escobedo Robles - Sending from home ax25:ea7abo - mailto:frer@vnet.es - http://frer.home.ml.org/ This message is just my opinion right now
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