3.12 kernels get stuck midway and do not get to gdm

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 20, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone else having trouble with 3.12 kernels?


No problem for me with: 3.12.5-301.fc21.x86_64 or with  3.13.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc21.x86_64.

> I don't have enough data to decide if it's a kernel issue or something
> else, but it comes up with both 3.12 kernels. I've filed a bug here[1].
> Should I give the 3.12 kernels negative karma for this?

If you don't have data knowing for sure it's the kernel, don't give the kernel negative karma. I'd say a problem must clearly be with kernel proper, or clearly with popular/necessary module or driver.

Could be dracut, could be udev, could be systemd… need to narrow it down.


> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045662

I see a TON of NetworkManager and firewalld errors. 

What's this?

Dec 21 11:33:14 ankur-laptop kernel: b43: probe of bcma0:0 failed with error -524
…
Dec 21 11:33:15 ankur-laptop systemd-udevd[362]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp18s0
…
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop firewalld[486]: 2013-12-21 11:33:31 ERROR: UNKNOWN_INTERFACE: wlp18s0
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop NetworkManager[629]: <info> (wlp18s0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop firewalld[486]: 2013-12-21 11:33:31 ERROR: UNKNOWN_INTERFACE: wlp18s0
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop NetworkManager[629]: <info> NetworkManager state is now CONNECTING
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop firewalld[486]: 2013-12-21 11:33:31 ERROR: UNKNOWN_INTERFACE: wlp18s0
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop NetworkManager[629]: <warn> (wlp18s0): add_pending_action (3): 'autoactivate' already added
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop firewalld[486]: 2013-12-21 11:33:31 ERROR: UNKNOWN_INTERFACE: wlp18s0
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop NetworkManager[629]: file devices/nm-device.c: line 6864 (nm_device_add_pending_action): should not be reached
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop NetworkManager[629]: <info> Activation (wlp18s0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop firewalld[486]: 2013-12-21 11:33:31 ERROR: UNKNOWN_INTERFACE: wlp18s0
Dec 21 11:33:31 ankur-laptop NetworkManager[629]: <warn> (wlp18s0) firewall zone remove failed: (32) UNKNOWN_INTERFACE: wlp18s0


I can't tell what firewalld is unhappy about. It could still be a wireless driver regression. danofsatx was having some wireless issues yesterday or day before, but I have no idea if that was instigated by a kernel change or not.


Chris Murphy