Bug#354749: kernel panic with libc6-2.3.6-2
severity 354749 normal
tag 354749 unreproducible
thanks
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:02:57PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Frits Daalmans a écrit :
> >Subject: kernel panic with libc6-2.3.6-2
> >Package: libc6
> >Version: 2.3.5-13
> >Severity: critical
> >Justification: breaks the whole system
> >
> >Hello,
>
> Hi!
>
> >Each week I try out the progress of Etch, and yesterday
> >I upgraded libc6 (and libc6-amd64) from 2.3.5-13 to 2.3.6-2
>
> I suppose you mean sid here, Etch still has libc6 2.3.5-13.
>
> >* and continued working successfully with no problems*
> >Today I boot my PC resulting in a kernel panic at boot (repeatedly,
> >at the same location, reproducibly). Something about not being able
> >to locate the root device. Since this is on a S-ATA disk on a
> >MSI motherboard with nforce3 chipset that I had serious trouble with
> >in the past (changing the names of its disks from hde5 <-> sda5 and back)
> >I tried both booting with option root=/dev/sda5 and with root=/dev/hde5
> >to no avail.
>
> Would it be possible to send a copy of the boot log, without that, it
> will be really difficult to debug the problem.
>
> >It took me quite a while to figure out what it was that broke
> >the system.
> >Kernel 2.6.15 failed to boot; in an older kernel 2.6.8 on the
> >same hardware the system booted fine.
> >
> >downgrading libc6 from 2.3.6-2 to 2.3.5-13 solved the problem.
>
> Have you regenerated the initrd image after downgrading this package? It
> is the only place where libc6 is used _before_ the root filesystem is
> mounted.
>
> Have you made any other changes when downgrading?
>
> >I'm really sorry that I can't pinpoint the problem better... good luck!!
> >Frits
> >
> >PS: I've also installed udev 0.084-5, hal 0.5.6-4 and dbus 0.60.5 in case
> >that's of any help..
>
> Are you sure udev is not the cause of your problems? Looks more probable.
No news from bug submitter for 2 weeks, and we received no similar
feedback, thus lowering the severity of this bug. Frits, if you
do not give informations requested by Aurelien, there is nothing we
can do to help you and we will have to close this bugreport.
Thanks.
Denis
Reply to: