[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

[Mauro Santos]

On 05/09/2010 06:20 PM, Marek Otahal wrote:
> On Sunday 09 of May 2010 15:55:17 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 May 2010 00:04:43 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>
>>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 02 May 2010 17:49:13 +0200
>>>
>>> Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>>>> This new kernel just exports some additional symbols for aufs2 which
>>>> was updated to a new snapshot. This should hopefully fix some issues
>>>> with the .33 kernel and aufs. Related aufs packages are: aufs2
>>>> 2.6.33_20100425-2 and aufs2-util 20100422-1
>>>>
>>>> In addition to regular sign-off some feedback about aufs would be
>>>> nice; especially if you use archiso.
>>>
>>> http://build.archlinux.org/isos/archlinux-2010.05.07-netinstall-i686.iso
>>> boots fine on my system. signoff i686.
>>>
>>> once i have rebuilt images (with correct copyright statement) i will
>>> let the community test, then you'll have a bit more feedback about how
>>> well it works ;)
>>>
>>> Dieter
>>
>> It seems to be fine in x86_64 and the aufs bugs are confirmed to be fixed
>> with this version. So, I'll move these to core/extra.
> Hello, 
> please just test a bit more the new kernel, I have just rebooted to the new 
> 2.6.33.3-2 kernel and got kernel panic on Init: ..something about missing 
> symbols, failed exec and 52 - I didn't take notes of that and don't know if 
> it's logged somewhere (?) 
> I'm using [testing], i686, and encrypted disk, but this probably occurred 
> before this.
> I'll retest when I have time..
> Anybody else experiencing this? 
> 
> Thanks and have a nice day 
> Mark

If you have something like radeon.modeset=1 in your kernel line, remove
that, that caused me some trouble and I got a kernel panic during
startup with this message:

"/init: export: line 52: (garbled chars): bad variable
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"

-- 
Mauro Santos