Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?

[Joachim Beckers <joachim.beckers@gmail.com>]

On 29 Mar 2008, at 06:41, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> Hi Joachim
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Joachim Beckers
> <joachim.beckers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's the same issue as the one that popped up in sid's 2.6.24. It
> > seems that the udev fix is not in the lenny kernel or that it fails
> > somehow. I was able to successfully boot by using this trick from
> > kevin price:
> > "For me 2.6.24-2 from today's sid runs fine with the line "ixp4xx- 
> > eth"
> > in
> > /etc/modules and an according rule in
> > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules"
>
> You shouldn't need to do this with the latest kernel in lenny. I've
> just tested it and udev loads the ethernet module automatically.
> Please send the output from the following commands:
>
> ls -l /boot
> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
> udevtest /sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx_eth.16
>
> > Side note: Now my slug works fine, apart from the front usb-connector
> > leds. they are off, but both connectors have drives attached and
> > mounted correctly...
>
> Sounds like your udev is not happy because nslu2-utils uses udev to
> automatically turn the leds on and off when devices are plugged into
> the USB ports. Please send can you send the output of
>
> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_nslu2-led.rules
>
> so that I can try to figure out what has gone wrong.

Just for the record, because everything works again, I've attached the  
output.

I fixed it by reinstalling udev. There must have been some corruption  
somewhere. It still takes a long time before the network comes up, but  
at least it does. Thanks for the clues!

joachim@slugification:~$ ls -l /boot
total 8960
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  746744 Feb 12 19:18 System.map-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   42892 Feb  6  2007 apex.flash
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   55971 Feb 11 14:37 config-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      26 Mar 28 19:03 initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3478595 Mar 29 08:16 initrd.img-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3478618 Mar 28 20:01 initrd.img-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx.bak
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      23 Mar 28 19:03 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1338156 Feb 12 19:18 vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-ixp4xx


joachim@slugification:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
# MAC addresses must be written in lowercase.

# Unknown net device (/class/net/eth0) (ixp4xx_mac)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:18:39:a9:ad:b7", NAME="eth0"


joachim@slugification:~$ sudo udevtest /sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx_eth.16
This program is for debugging only, it does not run any program,
specified by a RUN key. It may show incorrect results, because
some values may be different, or not available at a simulation run.

parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z20_persistent-input.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z20_persistent.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z45_persistent-net-generator.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z50_run.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z55_hotplug.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_nslu2-led.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_nslu2-rtc.rules' as rules file
parse_file: reading '/etc/udev/rules.d/z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules' as rules file
import_uevent_var: import into environment: 'DRIVER=ixp4xx_eth'
import_uevent_var: import into environment: 'PHYSDEVBUS=platform'
import_uevent_var: import into environment: 'PHYSDEVDRIVER=ixp4xx_eth'
import_uevent_var: import into environment: 'MODALIAS=platform:ixp4xx_eth'
main: looking at device '/devices/platform/ixp4xx_eth.16' from subsystem 'platform'
wait_for_sysfs: file '/sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx_eth.16/bus' appeared after 0 loops
main: run: 'socket:/org/kernel/udev/monitor'


joachim@slugification:~$ sudo cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_nslu2-led.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DEVPATH=="*/usb3/3-[12]", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/leds disk-%n on"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DEVPATH=="*/usb3/3-[12]", ACTION=="remove", PROGRAM="/usr/bin/leds disk-%n off"
joachim@slugification:~$