Re: Aargh !! What's with 2.3.22 ?

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 16:47:02 -0300

nathan.zook@amd.com said:
> Gidday. I just compiled 2.3.22 on an i386 (P100), and it chokes on every
> single SysV init script with the daemon command in it. It either gives
> me over a screen of <1>Operation not supported, then turns to a nice
> colourful display of arrows, then instantly reboots, or gives me an
> extensive error report with lots of numbers (stack dump or OOPS?), and
> reboots or says "Killing offending process" (something like that), and
> then goes into a panic because it tried to kill the idle process. I have
> none of this in logs, because it either freezes or reboots, and then I
> have to boot into my stable (relatively) 2.3.21 kernel, which replaces
> dmesg.

The last kernel that works for me (i686) is 2.3.20. And that one is a
suspect in illegal eating of filesystems... duplicate blocks with what
looks like deleted files.

2.3.22 and 23pre1 just call modprobe close to a thousand times (PID is 1060
or so when the next process starts, I see something like 12 to 20 "VM:
killing process modprobe"), even with init=/bin/bash, and a simple
ps(1) crashes it with a BUG() at the beginning of schedule()

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