FS#18716 - My computer doesn't boot with kernel 2.6.32.10-1

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Maxwell Draven (Ravenman) - Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 22:58 GMT
Last edited by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Friday, 26 March 2010, 19:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:

I'm upgraded the kernel package and my Arch Linux system doesn't boot.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

kernel 2.6.32.10-1

* config and/or log files etc.

I had found this line in /var/log/kernel.log:

Mar 16 17:37:19 139softec94 kernel: mkinitcpio[14923]: segfault at b3fae5c ip b76d8fb4 sp bf987db0 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[b766d000+141000]

Steps to reproduce:

Update to kernel 2.6.32.10-1
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Closed by  Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Friday, 26 March 2010, 19:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  OP advised problem solved (corrupt package installed, repo change fixed)
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 23:34 GMT
I think I will avoid rebooting till this gets removed from the tracker :S
Comment by Federico Chiacchiaretta (baghera) - Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 23:36 GMT
Maybe it's not kernel related, but it's related with this http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18711 ?
Comment by Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) - Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 08:54 GMT
I upgraded to 2.6.32.10-1 and at the same time downgraded GRUB2 to GRUB. After reboot I had no problems.
Comment by Michael Wigren (wigren) - Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 11:57 GMT
My laptop (x86_64) and desktop (i686) booted with out issue after an upgrade. I'm using GRUB .97 on both.
Comment by Maxwell Draven (Ravenman) - Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 14:04 GMT
I'm using grub 0.97-16 and my computer only works when I choose the Arch Linux Fallback in the GRUB options.

Comment by Arno B. (arno) - Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 16:12 GMT
I had a problem getting xorg to load with kernel 2.6.32.10-1. The HAL daemon wasn't starting properly (exit code 1 without any further information). The hald problem was resolved by adding a acpi=off option in GRUB but then my intel driver wouldn't load because of ACPI being disabled.

I had to downgrade back to 2.6.32.9-1 to get everything to run fine again with ACPI.
Comment by Taylan Ulrich B. (taylanub) - Thursday, 18 March 2010, 09:19 GMT
My booting stops on "loading udev uevents" ONLY on the hardware the attachment shows. No problem on another PC i use.
I can skip udev with ^C but many things break, to the point of impossible humane usage (root is read-only, couldn't change it; no hostname set, X won't work; no network...)
   lshw.out (18.5 KiB)
Comment by Taylan Ulrich B. (taylanub) - Monday, 22 March 2010, 10:47 GMT
Ok people, the problem got magically fixed for me. =P

Really, all of a sudden, it boots without problems.

The attached file is a snippet from pacman.log, which starts with the kernel 2.6.32.10 upgrade (which broke things) and goes to the end.
I have no idea what fixed the problem...
   pmlog (2.4 KiB)
Comment by Maxwell Draven (Ravenman) - Thursday, 25 March 2010, 22:45 GMT
As Taylan, I did change the repository, I installed the kernel package again ... and all works fine now.

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