Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: lurker <lurker@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst related kernel problem?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:20:47
Message-Id: 478815DF.1010402@lavabit.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst related kernel problem? by "Åsmund Grammeltvedt"
1 On 08/01/08 15:46, Åsmund Grammeltvedt wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:34:09 lurker wrote:
3 >> Greetings,
4 >>
5 >> Often when I build systems with catalyst I encounter the following
6 >>
7 >> kernel freeze after the boot loader has completed:
8 >>> [ ... lots of kernel loading stuff which seems ok ... ]
9 >>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
10 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
11 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
12 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
13 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
14 >>> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
15 >
16 > I had an issue with the same symptoms. It turned out that after some builds,
17 > the initramfs would contain empty files instead of links to busybox.
18 >
19 > In my case, the only way I could get it to work consistently was to patch
20 > genkernel to use symbolic links instead, when setting up the initramfs.
21
22 After upgrading to busybox-1.8.2 I've not experienced this any more.
23 Perhaps it's just a coincidence due to the random nature of this problem.
24
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst related kernel problem? Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>