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Subject: FW: I have two Linux ( 2.6.8 ?) problems
From: "Povolotsky, Alexander" <Alexander.Povolotsky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:18:22 -0400
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> Hi !
> 
> I have two problems disclosed here.
> Are both problems (or at least #1)  BusyBox related ? 
> Any idea how to fix ?
> 
> Problem # 1  "pivot_root" failure issue  
> 
>  Please note that PQ2FADS-VR is an embedded diskless board,
> booted with (old) ramdisk (from W. Denk) with BusyBox v0.60.1and
> then manually mounting onto NFS file system,  provided on the Linux "file
> server" PC, which is running Linux Red Hat 9 Shrike. 
> During the "manual"mount with specifying NFS version 2,  several warnings
> are thrown ...(-o nolock fixes those) 
>  but after a while the mount gets complete ...but ...
> I am not able to "pivot_root" on my board onto that mounted file system
> (though on the board the portmap is not running  ...I think ..  and
> loopback is configured)  
> - getting error: "pivot_root: Device or resource busy" (see below).
> I have limited tools on that board at that time to figure out what keeps
> old root busy 
> (outdated libc.so library, provided with ramdisk, which I can not replace
> on the fly,
> prevents adding/running rpcinfo and lsof).  
> 
> A)
> ************************
> tftpboot 200000 uimage
> ...
> bootm 200000 FF800000
> ...
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k init
> serial console detected.  Disabling virtual terminals.
> ### Application running ...
> BusyBox v0.60.1 (2002.10.24-02:29+0000) Built-in shell (msh)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> #mkdir /fadsroot
> # ls -l /
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            2048 Jan  1 01:29 bin
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            3072 Jan  1 00:00 dev
> drwxr-xr-x    5 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 etc
> drwxrwxrwx   38 0        0            4096 Oct  7  2004 fadsroot
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 ftp
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 home
> drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            1024 Jan  1 01:29 lib
> dr-xr-xr-x   25 0        0               0 Jan  1 00:00 proc
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x    4 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 usr
> drwxr-xr-x    4 0        0            1024 Jan  1 00:00 var
> # portmap
> portmap: not found
> # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:17:40:00:03
>           inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:15
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:2056 (2.0 kb)  TX bytes:1488 (1.4 kb)
>           Base address:0x8500
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> # mount
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> /dev/ram0 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
> #mount -o mountvers=2 192.168.0.3:/fadsroot /fadsroot
>  fs warning: mount version older than kernel
>  portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
>  RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5).
>  portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
>  RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5).
>  lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5
>  portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
>  RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5).
> # 
> # mount
> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
> /dev/ram0 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
> 192.168.0.3:/fadsroot on /fadsroot type nfs
> (rw,v2,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,ud
> p,lock,addr=192.168.0.3)
> # ps
>   PID  Uid     Stat Command
>     1 root     S    init
>     2 root     R    [ksoftirqd/0]
>     3 root     S    [events/0]
>     4 root     S    [khelper]
>     5 root     S    [kblockd/0]
>     6 root     S    [pdflush]
>     7 root     S    [pdflush]
>     8 root     S    [kswapd0]
>     9 root     S    [aio/0]
>    15 root     S    /usr/sbin/xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile
> /tmp/xinetd.pid
>   138 root     S    [rpciod]
>   253 root     S    -sh
>   254 root     S    /bin/sh /bin/application
>   256 root     S    sleep 300
>   258 root     R    ps
> 
> # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:17:40:00:03
>           inet addr:192.168.0.5  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:122 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:114
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:20747 (20.2 kb)  TX bytes:14320 (13.9 kb)
>           Base address:0x8500
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> # cd /fadsroot
> #sbin/pivot_root /fadsroot /tmp
> pivot_root: pivot_root: Device or resource busy
> 
> As I've mentioned already, using additionally -o noolock option,  while
> doung mount allows to get rid of warnings during mounting but this does
> NOT  fix 
> the pivot_root failure.
>  
>   ************************************************************* 
> I am not an expert on Red Hat 9 Linux either(though I "manage" that
> machine ;-)),
> but on that machine portmap is running there and /fadsroot is exported for
> NFS mounting also:
> 
> B)
> **************************************************
> [root@localhost root]# uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-28.9 #1 Thu Dec 18 13:45:22 EST 2003
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> [root@localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep portmap
> portmap-4.0-54
> 
> [root@localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep nfs
> nfs-utils-1.0.1-3.9
> redhat-config-nfs-1.0.4-5
> 
> [root@localhost root]# rpcinfo -p localhost
>    program vers proto   port
>     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>     100024    1   udp   1024  status
>     100024    1   tcp   1024  status
>     391002    2   tcp   1025  sgi_fam
>     100011    1   udp    999  rquotad
>     100011    2   udp    999  rquotad
>     100011    1   tcp   1002  rquotad
>     100011    2   tcp   1002  rquotad
>     100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
>     100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
>     100021    1   udp   1026  nlockmgr
>     100021    3   udp   1026  nlockmgr
>     100021    4   udp   1026  nlockmgr
>     100005    1   udp   1027  mountd
>     100005    1   tcp   1026  mountd
>     100005    2   udp   1027  mountd
>     100005    2   tcp   1026  mountd
>     100005    3   udp   1027  mountd
>     100005    3   tcp   1026  mountd
> 
> [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/exports
> /fadsroot *(rw,no_root_squash,async)
> 
> [root@localhost root]# showmount -e
> Export list for localhost.localdomain:
> /fadsroot *
> 
> *********************************************** 
> 
> Problem #2 
> I am also not able to boot "straight" (i.e., without ramdisk) -  with NFS
> mounting the root file system
> onto the same (as described above) Linux "file server" PC running Linux
> Red Hat 9 Shrike
> (with the same settings as it is described above)  -
> this does not work - I am getting kernel panic "Attempted to kill init!"-
> see below C) 
>  (That is why I am booting with ramdisk instead).
> This kernel panic is puzzling (given that with ramdisk I could boot now ).
> 
> So perhaps the problem is again in the NFS version incompatibility ???
> But this time it is not BusyBox from ramdisk ... but perhaps an attempt to
> run BusyBox from /fadsroot
> (it is there too, but more "current version" ) during the boot is failing
> in this case ?
> ... and the kernel on my board during booting does not "know", that it
> needs to use NFS version 2 
> during mounting ?
> 
>       Should the kernel be configured to 
>       allow to NFS mount root file system onto the NFS server with version
> 2 ? 
> 
>       I do not see the kernel option to configure NFS version 2 ...
>       Here is what I have:
>  
>       CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
>       # CONFIG_NFS_V3 is not set
>       # CONFIG_NFS_V4 is not set
>       # CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set
>       # CONFIG_NFSD is not set
>       CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
>       CONFIG_LOCKD=y
> 
> C)
> *************************************************************** 
>        => printenv
>       bootdelay=5
>       bootcmd=bootm 200000
>       ethaddr=08:00:17:00:00:03
>       serverip=192.168.0.3
>       ipaddr=192.168.0.5
>       baudrate=9600
>       bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.0.4:/fadsroot
>       stdin=serial
>       stdout=serial
>       stderr=serial
> 
>       Environment size: 210/262140 bytes
>       => tftpboot 200000 uimage
>       Using FCC2 ETHERNET device
>       TFTP from server 192.168.0.3; our IP address is 192.168.0.5
>       Filename 'uimage'.
>       Load address: 0x200000
>       Loading:
> #################################################################
>       
> #################################################################
>                #######################################
>       done
>       Bytes transferred = 864364 (d306c hex)
>       => bootm 200000
>       ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
>          Image Name:   Linux-2.6.8-rc4
>          Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>          Data Size:    864300 Bytes = 844 kB
>          Load Address: 00000000
>          Entry Point:  00000000
>          Verifying Checksum ... OK
>          Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>       Linux version 2.6.8-rc4 (apovolot@USPITLAD104868) (gcc version
> 3.3.2) #5 Mon Aug
>        16 08:49:38 EDT 2004
>       PQ2 ADS Port
>       Built 1 zonelists
>       Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.0.4:/fadsroot
> nobats ip=19
>       2.168.0.5
>       PID hash table entries: 256 (order 8: 2048 bytes)
>       Warning: real time clock seems stuck!
>       Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
>       Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
>       Memory: 30432k available (1348k kernel code, 324k data, 272k init,
> 0k highmem)
>       Calibrating delay loop... 131.07 BogoMIPS
>       Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
>       NET: Registered protocol family 16
>       PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>       Generic RTC Driver v1.07
>       Serial: CPM driver $Revision: 0.01 $
>       ttyCPM0 at MMIO 0xf0011a00 (irq = 40) is a CPM UART
>       RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32768K size 1024
> blocksize
>       loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
>       eth0: FCC ENET Version 0.3, 08:00:17:40:00:03
>       NET: Registered protocol family 2
>       IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
>       TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
>       NET: Registered protocol family 1
>       NET: Registered protocol family 17
>       IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.255.255.0
>       IP-Config: Complete:
>             device=eth0, addr=192.168.0.5, mask=255.255.255.0,
> gw=255.255.255.255,
>            host=192.168.0.5, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
>            bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=192.168.0.4, rootpath=
>       Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.4
>       Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.4
>       VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
>       Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k init
>       Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>        <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>  
> Any comment/opinion/solution/   ? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Best Regards,
> Your input/comments/advise is APPRECIATED in advance !,
> Alex
>  
> 
>  

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