Bug#261259: boot problems

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@013.net.il>]

Package: kernel-source-2.6.7
Version: 2.6.7-3
Severity: normal

  Other then lots of

    Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

lines when using *2.6.7-2* with a serial console, I can't see anything
wrong with *2.6.7-2*.

  Now to 2.6.7-3.
I have compiled it with the same configuration as -2.

  1) When I boot I get a kernel oops. Here are the messages that I could 
see on the screen:

esi: 000000296   edi: 00000008   ebp: d79b90f0   esp: c13a7dcc
ds: 007b    es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process mount (pid: 12, treadinfo=c13a6000 task=d79b90f0)
Stack: 00000008 00000001 d79b90f0 c01152c0 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000
       00000000 c12f3280 000009b7 d7994000 c02639a0 c8229bc8 00000000 00000244
       17994000 c0188291 d7e2dc00 00000244 00000004 00000000 0011abd1 d7e2dc00

Call Trace:
 [<c01152c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
 [<c0229bc8>] __down_failed+0x8/0xc
 [<c0188291>] .text.lock.inode+0x7d/0x8c
 [<c0131311>] page_cache_read+0xa1/0xe0
 [<c013163b>] filemap_nopage+0x2eb/0x390
 [<c013f2b3>] do_no_page+0xb3/0x310
 [<c013f710>] handle_mm_fault+0xe0/0x180
 [<c011397c>] do_page_fault+0x33c/0x52e
 [<c014c75c>] dentry_open+0x10c/0x240
 [<c0164271>] dput+0x31/0x220
 [<c014e3fb>] __fput+0xbb/0x120
 [<c014cbb9>] flip_close+0x59/0x90
 [<c0113640>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x52e
 [<c01065b5>] error_code+0x2d/0x38

Code: 8b 40 04 89 7c 24 10 89 4f 04 89 d7 89 44 24 14 89 08 ff 43

 <6> note: mount[12] exited with preemp_count 1
 

  2) Surprisingly, boot into single user and then ctrl+d to continue to
multi user mode seems to succeed. With a serial console, the boot
process seems to succeed as well though I get lots of 

    Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

lines.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-2.pentium2.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.7 depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                      1.0.2-1       A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  coreutils [fileutils]      5.0.91-2      The GNU core utilities

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