Hello Trond,

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:40:14AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:22:38PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:

quoted

The question is whether this is something happening on the server or the
client. Does an older client kernel boot without any trouble?

I will set up a boot test with 2.6.37 (for statistics) and 2.6.36 to
compare with.  If you don't consider .36 to be old enough let me now.
Once the setup is done it should be easy to test .35 (say), too.

Marc (cc'd) saw similar[1] problems with .37, when using .36.2 the
problems didn't occur.  This was more reliable to trigger and he was so
kind to bisect the problem.

When testing v2.6.36-rc3-51-gafa8ccc init hanged.
(babddc72a9468884ce1a23db3c3d54b0afa299f0 is the first bad commit with
this hang.)  Commit 56e4ebf877b6043c289bda32a5a7385b80c17dee makes the
"init hangs" problem the "fileid changed on tab" problem.

I could only reproduce that on armv5 machines (imx27, imx28 and at91)
but not on armv6 (imx35).

Best regards
Uwe

[1] similar means: not during boot, but when hitting tab to get command
completion in the shell.

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