New kernel doesn't complete booting

[Christopher Beland]

On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 15:15 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> kernel-2.6.29-0.24.rc0.git13.fc11.i686 doesn' complete booting on my
> i386 system and stops just after writing the very first lines on my
> screen.
> Anyone else with same experience???

Though I haven't had trouble booting up, kernel-2.6.28-3.fc11.x86_64 was
the last kernel that seems to be working without trouble for me.  Today,
I tried rebooting with kernel-2.6.29-0.19.rc0.git9.fc11.x86_64, and it
got as far as:

Jan 11 01:28:00 free-spin init: tty4 main process (2340) killed by TERM signal
Jan 11 01:28:00 free-spin init: tty5 main process (2341) killed by TERM signal
Jan 11 01:28:00 free-spin init: tty2 main process (2342) killed by TERM signal
Jan 11 01:28:00 free-spin init: tty3 main process (2343) killed by TERM signal
Jan 11 01:28:00 free-spin init: tty6 main process (2344) killed by TERM signal
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 15, shutting down normally.
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): now unmanaged
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): device state change: 8 -> 1
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 36).
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  eth1: canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 2412
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <WARN>  check_one_route(): (eth1) error -34 returned from rtnl_route_del(): Sucess#012
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): cleaning up...
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): taking down device.
Jan 11 01:28:01 free-spin NetworkManager: <info>  disconnected by the system bus.
Jan 11 01:28:02 free-spin ntpd[2028]: Deleting interface #4 eth1, fe80::21b:fcff:fe1e:2592#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0, 
active_time=12991 secs
Jan 11 01:28:02 free-spin ntpd[2028]: Deleting interface #5 eth1, 192.168.2.2#123, interface stats: received=585, sent=606, dropped=0, active_ti
me=12991 secs
Jan 11 01:28:06 free-spin init: prefdm main process (2339) killed by KILL signal
Jan 11 01:28:10 free-spin acpid: exiting
Jan 11 01:28:10 free-spin ntpd[2028]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Jan 11 01:28:10 free-spin nm-system-settings: disconnected from the system bus, exiting.
Jan 11 01:28:10 free-spin nm-dispatcher.action: Disconnected from the system bus, exiting.
Jan 11 01:28:10 free-spin restorecond: terminated
Jan 11 01:28:10 free-spin kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.

but then it didn't reboot.  I left it for about half an hour, with the
hard drive activity light flashing occasionally, but the Caps Lock light
not changing when hitting that button.  Previous 2.6.29 editions froze
randomly when running X, so things do seem to be improving.

The latest version, kernel-2.6.29-0.24.rc0.git13.fc11.x86_64 doesn't
reboot properly either.  It ends with some sort of kernel oops or
warning on the screen (cut off, since by that point it's in text-only
mode) but that may be from Bug 479553.  Looks like things are in active
development, so for now I'm waiting and watching things stabilize for a
bit.

-B.