Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56736
NIS/NFS/PCMCIA/APM don't cooperate nicely
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:26 EDT
I use NIS and NFS on my laptop via a PCMCIA ethernet card. This causes great difficulties: Firstly, '/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start' gets run too late. The default chkconfig startup priority is 45, but netfs' is 25 and ypbind's is 27. Obviously it needs to be run earlier, so I changed it to 20 and rebuilt the symlinks with chkconfig. But that doesn't work either! When invoked with the argument 'start', /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia finishes before cardmgr has completed its work. This means that '/etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs start' gets run quick enough afterwards that eth0 is still not ready. I added a 'sleep 10' to the end of /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia startup, but that's a nasty hack. It would be better to make the script wait until cardmgr is finished, just like /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript does if the PCMCIAWAIT option is enabled (except that doesn't work either, see bug #56718). In fact if you did this it would remove the need for the PCMCIAWAIT stuff which would fix that bug at the same time. Finally, when I do an APM suspend via 'apm -s', /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript correctly invokes /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs stop, but it just hangs on the 'umount -f -t nfs -a' bit. This is really weird, because if I run /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript suspend user from the command-line, it all works fine. The only difference I can think of is that the former case happens after the kernel apm has received a suspend signal, whereas in the latter case the kernel doesn't receive one. That suggests a kernel bug? It happens all kernels I've tried since 2.4.14. The stock RedHat 2.4.7 kernel just hangs completely when I suspend.I compiled with CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS, but also tried with options apm allow_ints=0 in /etc/modules.conf. Would be really grateful for any suggestions. All I want to do is to be able to close my laptop's lid :-( This is all on an IBM ThinkPad 390E, for what it's worth.
Upon further investigation, the umount hangs because something has already suspended all PCMCIA cards. I have no idea what that something is, or how to stop it suspending them. Setting the undocumented do_apm=0 option to pcmcia_core.o doesn't help, nor does recompiling the userspace utilities (cardmgr etc.) with CONFIG_PM=n, despite the documentation implying it might. I quote: Whether or not APM is configured, you can use ``cardctl suspend'' before suspending your laptop, and ``cardctl resume'' after resuming, to cleanly shut down and restart your PCMCIA cards. I'm beginning to lose my mind over this ... %-(
This should work better with 3.0.2-6 (still not perfect, pcmcia is still started after network because some people insist it's the correct thing to do).