Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

[Peter Weilbacher]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

> I've never experienced this particular kernel trouble myself, so I'm
> not sure if my input would be of much help.
> Here's what the kernel documentation has to say about this kind of issue:
>
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt:29,33
[...]
> Have a look for possibly stack traces in these log files:
> /var/log/{messages,dmesg}.
>
> Hopefully, someone else with more kernel debugging experience will
> have something more substantial to say about this.

Thanks for the reply, Alex. I had googled for those messages, too, and
had found that RCU info. Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with
it, since it stops right at the booting stage, right before init starts,
so before I can do anything interactive.

I have posted a message to the LKML, maybe someone there has a hint.
(The machine is old and rarely used, but I would still like to run the
newest software because it is connected to the net.)

   Peter.