Bug 121162 - kernel hangs during boot displaying 'freeing unused kernel memory'
Summary: kernel hangs during boot displaying 'freeing unused kernel memory'
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-18 09:45 UTC by David Juran
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-04-18 10:19:02 UTC
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Description David Juran 2004-04-18 09:45:39 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When trying to boot kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.326 on my dual PIII it get's to
a point where it prints 
'freeing unused kernel memory: 184 k freed' 
and then it just hangs there. Seem to be a regression issue, since
kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.315 works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.326

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot with kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.326


    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2004-04-18 09:49:31 UTC 
Is this a FC2 userspace ?
or FC1-ish
Comment 2 David Juran 2004-04-18 09:54:10 UTC 
FC1 with a few packages (e.g. kernel, picutils, kudzu, modutils)
updated  to devel.
Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2004-04-18 10:02:35 UTC 
ok then it's a known FC1 glibc bug ;(
you'll either have to put "vdso=0" on the kernel commandline or
upgrade glibc as well. To be honest putting vdso=0 in is going to be
easier ;)
Comment 4 David Juran 2004-04-18 10:19:02 UTC 
Thanks, the 'vdso=0' workaround works fine (-:
Comment 5 Hans Ecke 2004-04-22 18:13:45 UTC 
Arjan, could you make a note of this in your readme? Lots of folks
with RH9/FC1 are using your kernels and it looks like this will happen
to all of us...
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