Re: 2.4.7p6 hang

[Josh Logan]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:33:40AM -0700, Josh Logan wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having a hang right after the floppy is initialised with pre5 and pre6
> > (2.4.3 works fine)  I tried this patch, but it did not make any
> 
> is the problem introduced in pre5? Can you reproduce under 2.4.7pre4?

I'll have to go try it...

> 
> > improvments.  The machine still has SysRq commands available.  Please let
> > me know what other information you would like to debug this problem.
> 
> SYSRQ+T

Floppy Drives(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
SysRq: Show State

  task		     PC    stack    pid father child younger older
swapper		D C03EDEC0  4980      1      0     7               (L-TLB)
keventd		S C1234560  6624      2      1             3       (L-TLB)
ksoftirqd_CPU   S C1232000  6468      3      1             4     2 (L-TLB)
kswapd		S C1231FA8  6588      4      1             5     3 (L-TLB)
kreclaimd	S 00000286  6656      5      1             6     4 (L-TLB)
bdflush		S 00000286  6652      6      1             7     5 (L-TLB)
kupdated	S C7F9BFC8  6620      7      1                   6 (L-TLB)

I can add Call Traces if needed, this is done by hand.

> 
> > BTW, I also tried to disable the floppy in the BIOS and got:
> > ...
> > Floppy OK
> > task queue still active
> > <HANG>
> 
> I'll soon have a look at this message.
> 
> Andrea
> 

							Later, JOSH