Bug 17009
Summary: | Buggy initscripts on alpha | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Simon Hill <simon> |
Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 6.2 | CC: | rvokal |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | alpha | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-08-30 03:21:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 17163 | ||
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Description
Simon Hill
2000-08-27 19:28:59 UTC
Scatch number 2. I reinstalled and ran though the problems again, and saving the mixer settings worked fine. We haven't seen these on our alphas here. What sort of alpha do you have? It's a UDB (Multia). Actually, I'm setting up a 10-way UDB cluster in a ten-unit case. I don't see that it matters, though, except maybe wrt the sleep loop in ifdown. For the other two problems, awk does need a redirect to read from a file, doesn't it? No, it shouldn't. If you symlink awk to mawk, does it spontatenously start working? Yes and no. It would work fine if mawk were in /bin. This statement hangs: SWAPS=`awk '! /^Filename/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps` while this one works: SWAPS=`mawk '! /^Filename/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps` However, with awk -> /usr/bin/mawk, the awk's in rc.sysinit don't work until /usr is mounted. It also stops working after /usr is unmounted in halt. Of course, the first example should read gawk not awk. Or rather, when I tested it awk was simlinked to /bin/gawk. OK, this is a problem that occurs with awk *only* on EV4 alpha machines (i.e., Multias and Jensens.) As far as we can tell, it's not an awk/initscripts bug; it's a problem with FP emulation in the kernel. As such, I'm not going to change initscripts; symlinking awk to mawk (and possibly moving it to the root partition) is a valid workaround for now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11436 *** Yes, gawk was spending about 90% of its time in the kernel. Applying the EV4 FPE kernel patch fixed it. See bug #17163. |