I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds,
the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox.
In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
It would be nice if you would file a bug about this with as much information as
you have.
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gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
01-08-2008, 03:25 PM
lurker
catalyst related kernel problem?
On 08/01/08 15:46, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:34:09 lurker wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Often when I build systems with catalyst I encounter the following
>>
>> kernel freeze after the boot loader has completed:
>>> [ ... lots of kernel loading stuff which seems ok ... ]
>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>
> I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds,
> the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox.
>
> In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
> genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
Interesting. Care to share any of the details? I'm not as well-versed in
catalys as I would like..
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01-12-2008, 12:20 AM
lurker
catalyst related kernel problem?
On 08/01/08 15:46, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:34:09 lurker wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Often when I build systems with catalyst I encounter the following
>>
>> kernel freeze after the boot loader has completed:
>>> [ ... lots of kernel loading stuff which seems ok ... ]
>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
>
> I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds,
> the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox.
>
> In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
> genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
After upgrading to busybox-1.8.2 I've not experienced this any more.
Perhaps it's just a coincidence due to the random nature of this problem.
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01-12-2008, 03:49 PM
Chris Gianelloni
catalyst related kernel problem?
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 02:20 +0100, lurker wrote:
> > In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
> > genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
>
> After upgrading to busybox-1.8.2 I've not experienced this any more.
> Perhaps it's just a coincidence due to the random nature of this problem.
Are you talking about the host system or in your genkernel.conf ?
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer
01-12-2008, 04:15 PM
lurker
catalyst related kernel problem?
On 12/01/08 17:49, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 02:20 +0100, lurker wrote:
>>> In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
>>> genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
>> After upgrading to busybox-1.8.2 I've not experienced this any more.
>> Perhaps it's just a coincidence due to the random nature of this problem.
>
> Are you talking about the host system or in your genkernel.conf ?
What I did was simply to add busybox-1.8.2 to the stage3 build, then
rebuild the livecd stages and generate the iso. But now I realise that
it probably doesn't have anything to do with what genkernel do later on
(?) as genkernel seems to use its own busybox (version 1.1.3) which is
uses for its initrd images. So I guess I just was lucky...
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01-12-2008, 04:46 PM
Chris Gianelloni
catalyst related kernel problem?
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:15 +0100, lurker wrote:
> On 12/01/08 17:49, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 02:20 +0100, lurker wrote:
> >>> In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
> >>> genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
> >> After upgrading to busybox-1.8.2 I've not experienced this any more.
> >> Perhaps it's just a coincidence due to the random nature of this problem.
> >
> > Are you talking about the host system or in your genkernel.conf ?
>
> What I did was simply to add busybox-1.8.2 to the stage3 build, then
> rebuild the livecd stages and generate the iso. But now I realise that
> it probably doesn't have anything to do with what genkernel do later on
> (?) as genkernel seems to use its own busybox (version 1.1.3) which is
> uses for its initrd images. So I guess I just was lucky...
Well, sometimes luck counts... =]
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer
catalyst related kernel problem?
