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4.0-upgrade system hangs in boot (request-route?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Callahan)
Wed Oct 23 02:09:16 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:08:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Callahan <mjc@emmy.smith.edu>
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Today I tried to help someone upgrade from a 3.0.3 + 2.0-kernel-upgrades
system to 4.0.
The upgrade seemed to go without error. However, on reboot the system
hung during the initialization of the random number generator (revealed by
adding echo statements to rc.sysinit using a rescue disk--which, btw, 4.0
really could use). Commenting out the relevant line allowed rc.sysinit to
finish, but then the 'rc' script hung immediately (before producing any
output).
I tried commenting out the random line in rc.sysinit and booting with
'linux single'. I hoped that since rc.sysinit would be able to complete
that I would get to a shell prompt. This produced a hang after the shell
started ('sh' was listed in a control-scrlock process listing)-- without a
shell prompt.
Here's the information I have: when these hangs occur, pressing
control-scroll-lock shows that there is a request-route process which is a
child of kerneld, as well as whatever process was trying to get on with
the boot (i.e., rc..sysinit, rc, or sh in the three scenarios above).
System configuration: P5-133, 32MB RAM, 2G Seagate IDE disk as primary
master, IDE CDROM as primary slave, DEC Tulip 21041 net card (de4x5
driver, autodetected in upgrade, which was from an NFS server).
Partitions: / on /dev/hda1, /usr on /dev/hda2, swap on /dev/hda3.
Notes:
- It does not appear to me that the tulip driver is loaded during the boot
process that leads to a hang. There are no driver startup messages.
(Such messages did appear on VC4 during the upgrade.)
- Using the rescue disk, I tried making /sbin/request-route a symlink to
/bin/false, but that didn't change anything.
- A quick look at /tmp/upgrade.log before I had to go showed that a few
packages had complained about dependencies on 'libc.so' required by
'index'. (Pardon the lamely vague wording--I had to leave without time to
examine the file carefully.)
Help! I've been trying to advocate Red Hat to some Slackware users and
feel I have egg on my face.
Michael
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