[21204] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.1.18: kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (aatharuv@MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 16 23:20:32 2002
Message-Id: <200212170420.XAA01816@gasrd.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: aatharuv@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: aatharuv@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:20:29 -0500
System name: gasrd.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.1.18 (with mkserv)
Display type: XFree86 4.2.0
Shell: /bin/bash
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Install an smp kernel* on a _freshly installed Linux athena machine.
What's wrong:
rpm never finishes. i.e. it hangs. Looking at the
running processes, umount /tmp/initrd.mnt/X5cy57 is taking up 98%
of the cpu. This seems similar to the problem mentioned in
release-team[3625] , and over -c dev on Thursday Dec 12 .
Thus, anyone doing a fresh install of a Linux Athena machine on
an SMP machine, can't use both processors.
What should have happened:
It should have finished and cleanly umounted any loopback filesystems
that were used in creating the initrd image
* From /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/redhat-7.3-updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.18-17.7.x.i686.rpm
