Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140862
Kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 hangs after audit line
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:13:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Description of problem: Installed FC2 from CDs (Kernel 2.6.5-1.358). Updated system via yum. Tried to boot new kernel, but Machine hangs forever at line: audit(11014300009.587:0): initialized Machine is a IPC PowerNote Green795 laptop with a AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB Ram. Flo Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Additional info:
can you try booting with the boot parameter initcall_debug and see if that prints out anything useful just before it hangs ?
Oh, yes, i added the initcall_debug and removed the "quiet" switch. Last some lines are: ACPI: Processor: [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling state) isapnp: scanning for PnP Cards ... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found You need more lines or hardware info? Flo
get any further if you boot with acpi=off ?
Hi, Thanks, yes this works. But is that a real option for a laptop?
I wasnt recommending running with it the whole time, just trying to find the root cause of the problem. Intel ACPI folks CC'd. Maybe they have some ideas where to go next.
> Updated system via yum not really sure what kernel we're working with here, I guess this is an FC2 kernel that is newer than 2.6.9? Does kernel.org 2.6.9 do the same? Please confirm that "acpi=noirq" is sufficient workaround to boot. a complete dmesg would be helpful. Even better, a console capture of the failure, if possible.
Len -- the FC2 kernel is at 2.6.9-ac10
Created attachment 107725 [details] dmesg output with acpi=noirq
acpi=noirq worked. I'll try to configure grub and the kernel to use the serial port. Then i can give you some more bootmessages.
Created attachment 107736 [details] example script to update grub's menu.lst file Here's the script I use to update grub's config file on my test machines. Note that it also adds "debug" to the cmdline so that we see everything over the wire that dmesg would see. Hack at will:-)
Created attachment 107785 [details] Captured boot messages with acpi=on
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