Hi, thanks for response! > -----Original Message----- > From: Witold Baryluk [mailto:baryluk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:56 PM > To: Uwe Schindler > Subject: Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha > > On 05-18 14:15, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had some time today to try again an upgrade of my AlphaStation 500 > > to "linux-image-2.6.38-2-alpha-generic". I got again an error on > > loading the xfs.ko module from initrd (I typed it manually from the > > boot screen to this mail *g*): > > > > Module xfs: Relocation (type4) overflow vs _xfs_buf_find > > FATAL: Error inserting xfs (/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-alpha-generic/.../xfs.ko): > > Invalid module format > > > > All other modules before (like SCSI QLA1040 and SATA SiI3114, Tulip > > Ethernet,... load successfully). The last kernel that works is (as > > written > > below): 2.6.31-1-alpha-generic, all after 2.6.32 fail with the same > > error message (with some minor differences). > > > > I had to go back to the working kernel and of course prevent upgrading > > udev... > > Strange. I was using xfs on 2.6.32 without problem (but not as root). Can try > on 2.6.38. 2.6.32 is also broken here (at least in the debian alpha-generic kernel). > > Has anybody any idea what's wrong with the XFS module? My root file > > system on a SATA disk (not /boot) is XFS. Maybe its again a binutils bug. > > Looks to be, but why only this module? That's the big question. It's not a corrupted initrd, because i regenerated it quite often, reinstalled kernels,... It is broken since .32 for this machine. Here some more infos about the machine (with working kernel): [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.31-1-alpha-generic (Debian 2.6.31-2) (ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 Mon Nov 16 05:56:06 UTC 2009 [ 0.000000] Booting GENERIC on Alcor variation Alcor using machine vector Alcor from SRM [ 0.000000] Major Options: MAGIC_SYSRQ [ 0.000000] Command line: ro root=/dev/disk/by-label/root ... $ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : Alpha cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 7 cpu revision : 0 cpu serial number : system type : Alcor system variation : Alcor system revision : 0 system serial number : cycle frequency [Hz] : 500000000 timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00 page size [bytes] : 8192 phys. address bits : 40 max. addr. space # : 127 BogoMIPS : 990.32 kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) user unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) platform string : Digital AlphaStation 500/500 cpus detected : 1 L1 Icache : 8K, 1-way, 32b line L1 Dcache : 8K, 1-way, 32b line L2 cache : 96K, 3-way, 64b line L3 cache : 8192K, 1-way, 64b line $ lspci 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040 [Tulip] (rev 26) 00:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 00:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 02) 00:0a.0 EISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82375EB/SB PCI to EISA Bridge (rev 15) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 20) 00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: Digital Equipment Corporation PBXGB [TGA2] (rev 22) $ lsscsi [0:0:0:0] disk IOMEGA ZIP 100 J.03 /dev/sda <-- this uses special alpha partition table with ext2 as /boot (contains aboot and kernel) [0:0:6:0] cd/dvd TEAC CD-R56S 1.0P /dev/sr0 [1:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3120827AS 3.42 /dev/sdb <-- on this disk is xfs filesystem Uwe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
