On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:33:45PM -0700, Jason wrote: > I went from kernel 2.6.23.5 to 2.6.37 and init hangs before > switching to run level 3. It executes all initial system scripts > via "rc sysinit" at sysinit runlevel but never switches to run level > 3 which is my initdefault. This was first seen with sysvinit-2.86 > so I upgraded to sysvinit-2.88dsf and still I have the same issue. > > I then enabled debug and added my own debug statements and found > that it's hanging on select() inside check_init_fifo(). Why would > select() hang when it has a five second timeout set? > > Kernels 2.6.23.17 and 2.6.25.20 work fine. Kernels 2.6.35.10, > 2.6.37, 2.6.38-rc1 all have the init hang issue. > > I am compiling init on a 2.6.23.5 system so I don't know if that is > an issue or not. The system has gcc 4.0.1 and glibc-2.3.5. Is > there a requirement to have glibc compiled against newer kernel > headers?
IMHO this could be also a kernel problem. On the other hand here we have 2.6.37 around with glibc 2.11.3 in this does boot with sysvinit 2.88dsf all conmpiled with gcc 4.5.1 Werner -- System V style init programs - http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/
