Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:52:36 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 still does not boot but it progress : seems to be console font related |
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Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr> wrote: > > I have compiled a completely clean, unpatched (I mean except of course > rc2-mm2) and I can still not manage to finish booting. However, this > time, I get a little bit further AND system seems to hang exactly at the > same place each time (which was not the case with rc2-mm1). In fact I > managed to have the same behavior after removing the initramfs patches > from rc2-mm1 and fixing some other things using bk snapshots diffs (SCSI > st driver). > > It hangs when executing : > /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh after displaying: > > Setting up general console font.. > > Attached is a shell trace of a working session on > 2.6.5-rc1-mm2. It basically does (twice wonder why!) a loop of : > > > /usr/bin/consolechars --tty=/dev/vc/[X] -f lat0-16 > > I also traced the set of system calls /usr/bin/consolechars does via ptrace. > > Of course, the same shell script, same binaries and same settings works > for 2.6.5-rc1-mm2
Are you using devfs? If so, please try the below patch (I don't see why, but..)
Can a sysrq-T or sysrq-P trace be generated when it has died? You may need to alter your initscripts so they do not stick a zero in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
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25-akpm/drivers/char/vt.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/char/vt.c~a drivers/char/vt.c --- 25/drivers/char/vt.c~a 2004-03-24 09:49:10.285591688 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/vt.c 2004-03-24 09:50:54.355770616 -0800 @@ -2471,10 +2471,13 @@ static int con_open(struct tty_struct *t tty->winsize.ws_row = video_num_lines; tty->winsize.ws_col = video_num_columns; } + release_console_sem(); vcs_make_devfs(tty); + goto out; } } release_console_sem(); +out: return ret; } @@ -2484,11 +2487,13 @@ static void con_close(struct tty_struct if (tty && tty->count == 1) { struct vt_struct *vt; - vcs_remove_devfs(tty); vt = tty->driver_data; if (vt) vc_cons[vt->vc_num].d->vc_tty = NULL; tty->driver_data = 0; + release_console_sem(); + vcs_remove_devfs(tty); + return; } release_console_sem(); } _
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