Greetings, I'm encountering a rather annoying error on one of our AMD Opteron boxes. I recompiled the working 2.6.17 kernel to add some extra SCSI support and booted to find something similar to:
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice device-mapper: ioctl: 4.10.0-ioctl (2006-09-14) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded device-mapper: multipath emc: version 0.0.3 loaded TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Freeing unused kernel memory: 324k freed request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 ... and then a hung kernel. I figured I'd enabled/disabled something I shouldn't have and went through the kernel config many times, recompiling with different options (including ELF and misc emulation support), but to no avail. As time ticked closer to 5pm on a Friday my interest decreased and so I tried upgrading to 2.6.18 and then 2.6.19, with a tonne of different configurations. Still nothing. The best I could achieve was on a fresh 2.6.19.1 I managed to pass the modprobe and load some input drivers, but then it hung directly after that. ... request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input1 Any advice on debugging this would be appreciated. How can I discover what is trying to load binfmt-0000 and why is it looping? Regards -- Tom Lanyon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
