From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: When the system boots up, nearly everything looks to be fine (except USB keyboard and mouse, but thats not important for me). Logging into the system shows (/sbin/ifconfig) that my PCMCIA ethernet card was not start up (no eth0 device). Calling 'service network restart' brings eth0 up (ip adress discovered by DHCP). So far so good (except the fact that I must execute the network restart everytime I boot). When shutting down the computer, the shutdown freezes when loopback device is unmounted. This result in possible data looses due to the fact that the normal hard disk isn't unmounted at this stage. If I don't restart the network (only lo is availible), the reboot or shutdown is going straight forward. Conclusion: Looks like a big mistery to me, no logs are written to /var/log (syslog is down when freeze start), no strange messages on the screen, the computer just freeze (only switching through virtual terminals work, but no input is accepted from the terminal). Needless to say that everything work till RH9beta with 2.4.x Kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13, kernel-2.6.0-0.test5.1.34, initscripts-7.28-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. Execute service network restart 3. Shutdown Actual Results: System freeze Expected Results: Clean shutdown/reboot Additional info: Hardware: Dell Latitude CPx, 512MB RAM, 48GB HD, ES1983S, Rage Mobility AGP 2x, Xircom Cardbus Ethernet + 56k Modem (rev3), Texas Instruments PCI1225 CardBus Bridge.
Since update to kernel-2.6.0-0.test5.1.38 the reboot works again without freezing the system while unmounting the loopback device. The problem with eth0 still occurs, after starting the system, xircom_cb module is loaded but no eth0 device is setup up.
After installing hotplug-2003_08_05-1_rh9.noarch.rpm and hotplug-base-2003_08_05-1_rh9.noarch.rpm from http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.com/ the detection of the eth0 device works well during startup. Looks like missing definitions in pci.agent under /etc/hotplug. There is one item left during startup which throws an error, the initialization of USB keyboard and USB mouse. I didn't find valuable information using Google and several newgroups. I think that the names in /etc/modprobe.conf have changed in 2.6.0-test5 comparing with 2.4.x. Is there any hint what I've to add to modprobe.conf?
how are things with the current release ?
closing due to inactivity.