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- Subject: pcmciautils: ..i82365 is 'modprobe && modprobed -r'ed in a rah-rah-rah style loop, was first reported on udev as bug#391832
- From: Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:47:33 +0200
- Message-id: <20061010224733.27935.9743.reportbug@a45.fmb.no>
Package: pcmciautils
Version: 014-2
Severity: normal
....wee udevmonitor output snippet:
UDEV [1160337418.883552] add@/module/i82365
UDEV [1160337418.925886] add@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
UDEV [1160337418.952325] add@/devices/platform/i82365.0
UEVENT[1160337419.012676] add@/module/i82365
UEVENT[1160337419.012795] add@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
UEVENT[1160337419.012859] add@/devices/platform/i82365.0
UEVENT[1160337419.012919] remove@/devices/platform/i82365.0
UEVENT[1160337419.012979] remove@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
UDEV [1160337419.033612] remove@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
UEVENT[1160337419.037723] remove@/module/i82365
UDEV [1160337419.155955] remove@/module/i82365
UDEV [1160337419.181726] remove@/devices/platform/i82365.0
....etc loops, eating all the omph. Desktop, no pcmcia gear.
...so, Marco adviced udev don't do removal and closed Bug#391832,
asking me to instead put blame here on pcmciautils ;o) to help
track down this.
...I also have these ref debs, as my 5 aoulde IBM tp 760ED's are a bit over the hill:
arnt@a45:/var/www/dropzone $ dpkg -l |grep pcmcia
ii kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.27-2-k6 2.4.27-12 Mainstream PCMCIA modules 2.4.27 on AMD K6/K
ii pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-8 PCMCIA Card Services for Linux (deprecated)
ii pcmcia-source 3.2.8-8 Old PCMCIA kernel modules source
ii pcmciautils 014-2 PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages pcmciautils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libsysfs2 2.0.0-7 interface library to sysfs
ii lsb-base 3.1-17 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages pcmciautils recommends:
ii udev 0.100-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
-- no debconf information
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- To: Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>
- Cc: 392261-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#392261: pcmciautils: ..i82365 is 'modprobe && modprobed -r'ed in a rah-rah-rah style loop, was first reported on udev as bug#391832
- From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:17:47 +0200
- Message-id: <20090728171747.GA29433@galadriel.inutil.org>
- In-reply-to: <20061011151542.7292b3be.arnt@c2i.net>
- References: <20061010224733.27935.9743.reportbug@a45.fmb.no> <20061011075010.GG19827@riva.ucam.org> <20061011151542.7292b3be.arnt@c2i.net>
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:15:42PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:50:10 +0100, Colin wrote in message
> <20061011075010.GG19827@riva.ucam.org>:
>
> > reassign 392261 linux-2.6
>
> ..ok? This couldn't be a case of stuff "waging war" in my box?
> I stuff in debs here to read the docs and help spot conflicts and
> make sure FlightGear still run flyable on this low end box.
>
> > thanks
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:47:33AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > ....wee udevmonitor output snippet:
> > > UDEV [1160337418.883552] add@/module/i82365
> > > UDEV [1160337418.925886] add@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
> > > UDEV [1160337418.952325] add@/devices/platform/i82365.0
> > > UEVENT[1160337419.012676] add@/module/i82365
> > > UEVENT[1160337419.012795] add@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
> > > UEVENT[1160337419.012859] add@/devices/platform/i82365.0
> > > UEVENT[1160337419.012919] remove@/devices/platform/i82365.0
> > > UEVENT[1160337419.012979] remove@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
> > > UDEV [1160337419.033612] remove@/bus/platform/drivers/i82365
> > > UEVENT[1160337419.037723] remove@/module/i82365
> > > UDEV [1160337419.155955] remove@/module/i82365
> > > UDEV [1160337419.181726] remove@/devices/platform/i82365.0
> > > ....etc loops, eating all the omph. Desktop, no pcmcia gear.
> > >
> > > ...so, Marco adviced udev don't do removal and closed Bug#391832,
> > > asking me to instead put blame here on pcmciautils ;o) to help
> > > track down this.
> >
> > Well, pcmciautils doesn't remove modules either. It does modprobe
> > i82365 if configured to do so (/etc/default/pcmciautils), but not
> > obviously in a loop. I can only conclude that this is a kernel bug of
> > some kind that happens when the i82365 driver fails to load. Could you
> > provide the output of 'uname -a' and 'dmesg'?
>
> ..arnt@a45:~ $ uname -a
> Linux a45 2.6.18-1-486 #1 Fri Sep 29 15:40:22 UTC 2006 i586 GNU/Linux
>
> ..this is an AMD k6-2 cpu, though.
> arnt@a45:~ $ dmesg
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
> pci_set_power_state(): 0000:00:09.0: state=3, current state=5
>
> ...etc, arnt@a45:~ $ dmesg |wc -l
> 253
> of it, so there goes my uptime again, will post dmesg after my next
> reboot.
Since this bug is very old, I suppose this is fixed in the mean
time in Lenny or later kernels?
Cheers,
Moritz
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