Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144863
new kernel causes boor problems
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:20 EST
Description of problem:Booting with the new kernel causes repeating statements in the messages file that eats up log space. I don't know why these repeating messages appear, what causes them, or how to get rid of them. But they didn't occur until this latest kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Load new kernel 2. Reboot 3. Actual results: Repeating messages occur Expected results: No repeating messages Additional info: These messages seem to refer to device sda. To the best of my knowledge, I don't even have an sda, at least no scsi devices on this machine. I will be attaching 2 messages files. One from 2.6.10-1.737 (with repeating statements) and one from 2.6.9-1.724 (which I have reverted back to).
Created attachment 109652 [details] messages file from 2.6.10-1.737
Created attachment 109653 [details] messages file from 2.6.9-1.724
looks like its polling your card reader. Does it stop if you disable hald ?
Good news / bad news. Indeed, when I disabled the card reader it booted without any of those statements. And when I then plugged it in while tailing messages, the statements started up again and quit when I unplugged it. Unfortunately, I need the card reader. So I suppose I'll have to wait for the next kernel release, no? Also, I noticed that my lm_sensors is now not working with this new kernel.
does it stop if you do service stop haldaemon
Yes. But here's another "unfortunately..." While that seems to have fixed those spurious statements in the messages log, lm_sensors still does not work and my card reader doesn't work either. At least not automatically like I'm used to. I haven't tried anything manual. (It used to ask if I wanted to transfer photos when plugging in the mem card.)
I just tried the latest 741 kernel and it has exactly the same issues as 737 - card reader causes startup problems if plugged in (or doesn't work after booting if plugged in later) and lm_sensors doesn't work.
I just plugged in the latest kernel from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3/. It's the 2.6.10-1.753_FC3 vesion. I've got good news and bad. First, my USB card reader once again works! Yay! First one since 2.6.9-1.724 that's worked! Now the bad news. My lm_sensors still doesn't work. (Like the card reader, it hasn't worked with any kernel since 2.6.9-1.724). Do you want me file a different bug for that one and close this one out? Please advise.
Re: lm_sensors not working with 2.6.10 kernels: After reading about it in a previous post in Fedora-list, I got lm_sensors to work again by merely adding the line: /sbin/rmmod i2c_viapro to my rc.local file prior to the other lm_sensor modprobe lines. It's not at all clear to me why this step is necessary now since it wasn't with any of my 2.6.9 kernels nor is it clear why or how i2c_viapro is being added in the first place. C'est la vie. Lm_sensors is now working again for me.