hang "Starting udev:_" after last good: kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5

[John Reiser]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178708#c2

All daily rawhide kernels after 2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 hang during
init with "Starting udev:_" where the underscore '_' indicates that
the VGA blinking underline cursor has stopped blinking.  There is
no response to any keyboard input; hardware reset is required.
The hardware is plain clone and has been reliable.

Booting with serial console reveals nothing other than what is on
the VGA screen: in particular, no Oops messages.  Package versions are:
  kernel-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5  (hangs)
  udev-078-7
  initscripts-8.21-1
  kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5  (works)

Suggestions?

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[Kimmo Koivisto]

John Reiser kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Monday 30 January 2006 17:57):
>  The hardware is plain clone and has been reliable. 
I think my HW is reliable hardware too, but maybe this has something to do 
with hardware because most of the users do not have this problem.

I have this problem too, and I have following hardware
 x86 32bit:
- AMD AMD Athlon XP 2000+
- don't remember what is my mb vendor, but it has Via chipset KT400/600 (from 
lspci)
- PCI FireWire card Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
- PCI PCMCIA card Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
- PCMCIA WLAN with Prism2 chipset (INTERSIL,HFA384x/IEEE)
- PCI Technotrend Full Featured DVB-T card
- Ati Radeon, don't remember which one, lspci reports 7000/VE
- And as usual, some DVDRW, don't remember model and Samsung CDRW
- 512Mb memory
- 80Gb IDE
- Omnikey usb smart card reader

What kind of hardware you have?

Regards
Kimmo Koivisto

[John Reiser]

>  I think my HW is reliable hardware too, but maybe this has something
> to do 
>  with hardware because most of the users do not have this problem. 
>  What kind of hardware you have? 
Full serial console log is in the bugzilla #178708.  Highlights:
Jan 30 07:38:41 fc5test2 kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Jan 30 07:38:41 fc5test2 kernel: 767MB LOWMEM available.

Jan 30 07:38:41 fc5test2 kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
Jan 30 07:38:41 fc5test2 kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x5008
Jan 30 07:38:41 fc5test2 kernel: ACPI: Local APIC disabled (-2); pass 'lapic' to
re-enable.

Jan 30 07:38:41 fc5test2 kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Jan 30 07:38:43 fc5test2 kernel: hda: WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3, ATA DISK drive
Jan 30 07:38:43 fc5test2 kernel: hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-816B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
(rev 82)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio
Accelerator (rev 02)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82559 InBusiness 10/100 (rev 08)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
$

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[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

>    kernel-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5  (hangs)
>    udev-078-7
>    initscripts-8.21-1
>    kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5  (works) 
kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 kicked ass no doubt; but the good old
days are gone =(

I went ahead and black listed all kernels from the upstream until I
can manually test each set.

I changed yum.conf :
excluded=*kernel*

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