On Thursday, July 07, 2011, Knut Petersen wrote: >Am 07.07.2011 02:33, schrieb Greg KH: >> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:06:40PM +0200, Knut Petersen wrote: >>> Hi everybody! >>> >>> An openSuse 11.2 system reliably refused to boot properly with kernel >>> 2.6.38.8 although the prior 2.6.38.y kernels worked fine. After a >>> few seconds booting stopped. Several <ctrl-c> did help, but a lot of >>> services were not started properly, only the root partition was >>> available. Nothing unusual could be found in the kernel messages. >>> >>> I bisected the problem to commit >>> 5fb46ae7b8c51b05a12c6a66108e8d398c20ee09. >>> >>> That gave me the idea to disconnect the Plextor PX-755A dvd drive and >>> to try 2.6.38.8 again. It booted without problem. >> >> Does the 2.6.39.2 kernel work properly for you? > >Yes. Kernel 2.6.38[,1,2,3,4,5,6,7] 2.6.39[1,2] 3.0-git are ok, only >2.6.38.8 is broken in the way described above. > >cu, > knut FWIW guys, running a Texstar built 2.6.38.8-pae-bfs kernel here, but my dvd writer, which works, is (from messages at last boot) scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM ATAPI iHAS324 A BL1D PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Assigned to /dev/sr0. And I cannot duplicate this. My problems are shutdown/reboot related, it "turning off swap" "-f" on the next line, and it is hung till I tap the hardware reset button. In your case I'd suspect something in the Plextor that could be as simple as a dusty led/ir combo that detects the disk. But dvd writers have become so cheap they are hardly worth pulling the covers off to check. Cheers, gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) O give me a home, Where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard A discouraging word, 'Cause what can an antelope say? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
