Re: Hanging around with 2.4.5-xfs from cvs

["Klaus Strebel,ITS,204" <stb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Russell Cattelan wrote:

> Keith Owens wrote:
>
> And of course the question to ask which version of the compiler are you
> using? I've had problems with kdb and everything but 2.91.66 for the
> compiler.
>
> Although it never failed to boot.
Tried both gcc-2.95.2 and kgcc alias egsc-2.91.66.


> > On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 16:35:07 +0200,
> > "Klaus Strebel,ITS,204" <stb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > yesterday i updated my linux-2.4-xfs cvs-tree (after waiting anxiously
> > > for oss.sgi.com to be reachable again, sigh :-) ), compliled it,
> > > installed it, booted and ... by box kept hanging at the 'ifconfig lo
> > > 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo'. I unconfigured START_LOOPBACK (i'm
> > > using SuSE 7. almost 1, couldn't find a way to do the SuSE-upgrade
> > > procedure with a xfs-enabled kernel, only / and /boot are ext2), tried
> > > it again, an by box hang at loading the next network driver :-(.
> > >
> > > So i downloaded linux-2.4.5-xfs-05312001.patch.bz2 from oss.sgi.com,
> > > removed everything not necessary for xfs from it (kernel debugger,
> > > ac-patch things, lvm upgrades - upgraded myself to 0.9.1beta7 ...) and
> > > no it works! Is KDB broken ??
> > Works for me :).  This is top of tree as of Fri Jun 1 15:10:23 UTC
> > 2001, configured with xfs and kdb.
> >
> > Linux ocs4 2.4.5-xfs #1 SMP Sat Jun 2 01:10:01 EST 2001 i686 unknown
> >
> > Entering non-interactive startup
> > Setting network parameters:  [  OK  ]
> > Bringing up interface lo:  [  OK  ]
> > Bringing up interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
> >
> > Your problem sounds like a generic network problem, not XFS.  There
> > have been some recent patches by Jeff Garzick for timing related
> > problems with network drivers on 2.4.5.  Try linux-kernel.
I think its because of patches to the 2.4.5-tree applied to linux-xfs 
cvs tree. Vanilla kernel with only (i hope all) patches needed for xfs 
from linux-2.4.5-xfs-05312001.patch.bz2 works.
Ciao
Klaus