On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:41:55PM -0400, Rob Kampen wrote:
> Rob Kampen wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well.
>> Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel
>> was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release.
>> The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to the 128.4.1 kernel
>> and the boot process is under way.
>> after some 30 secs the system starts beeping - continuously.
>> After I hooked up a monitor I find that udev does not come up with OK
>> and thats when the system starts the beep beep beep ......
...
> Still no joy with the latest kernel - fails at initialization of udevd
> with beep beep beep .......
> I have tried a new version of the rr174x raid controller device driver,
> new make and make install but still the same issue. Not sure if this
> module is looked at by udev or not - I'm way out of my depth here.
>
> Currently server is functioning fine on
> Linux obfuscated.example.com 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 14
> 06:36:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> but I'm perturbed why a simple update of the kernel kills my server -
> not what I expected from CentOS / RHEL.
> What tests / things should I check? I see no files in /etc with dates
> after Jul 21 (date I installed 128.2.1 kernel) that appear to contain
> any device related changes
The changelog from 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 to 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5:
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Don Howard <dhoward@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.18-128.4.1.el5]
- [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 11 packet literal data buffer size (Eric Sandeen ) [512862 512863] {CVE-2009-2406}
- [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 3 packet encrypted key size (Eric Sandeen ) [512886 512887] {CVE-2009-2407}
- [misc] personality handling: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [511173 508842] {CVE-2009-1895}
- [xen] HV: remove high latency spin_lock (Chris Lalancette ) [512311 459410]
* Tue Jul 14 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.18-128.3.1.el5]
- [pci] quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets (Dean Nelson ) [507529 501374]
- [char] tty: prevent an O_NDELAY writer from blocking (Mauro Carvalho Chehab ) [510239 506806]
- [misc] hrtimer: fix a soft lockup (Amerigo Wang ) [418061 418071] {CVE-2007-5966}
- [misc] hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow (AMEET M. PARANJAPE ) [510018 492230]
Do you see anything relevant to your hardware?
Since you mention that udev has started, we can rule out the kernelbooting/initrd stage.
Tru
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