Richard Fish wrote: > Greetings list, > > I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my > laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the > initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from > the initramfs, etc). The problem I have now is that my system hangs in > the rc-scripts if I give a splash= option on the kernel command line. > After adding a lot of 'echo' statements to the scripts, and a few > hundred reboots, I have narrowed it down the following command: > > mount -n --move /lib/splash/tmp /lib/splash/cache > > I duplicated and strace'd the move command, and it seems the kernel > hangs in the mount() system call. Googling hasn't turned up anything > interesting (ok, maybe it was interesting, but it wasn't really relevant!) > > What I would like your help with is to determine whether I am looking at > a kernel bug in 2.6.12[.1], or a configuration problem on my system. To > that end, I'd like to get a few people to try: > > # mkdir fooey fooey_move > # mount -n -t ramfs fooey fooey > # mount -n --move fooey fooey_move > > Note that the final command may hang your system, so _please_ don't say > I didn't warn you!!! > > Assuming it works for you, you should be able to cleanup the mess with: > > # umount fooey_move > # rmdir fooey foeey_move > > If you try this, please report back: >
Hi Richard, I tried but could not reproduce it. > 1. whether you saw the hang or not nope > 2. kernel version gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r1 > 3. util-linux version (mount --version) mount: mount-2.12q > 4. Any 'special' features of your system (SMP, HT, arch, ...) x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ CONFIG_MK8=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT=y # CONFIG_FB_SPLASH is not set > > Thanks in advance! > > -Richard > I suggest that you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=n ;-). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
