From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:21:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:21:12 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:264 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:21:01 -0400 Subject: Re: /proc/partitions hosed To: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:26:13 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010924124131.A4755@vdpas.hobby.nl> from "toon@vdpas.hobby.nl" at Sep 24, 2001 12:41:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It didn't get trough the boot-sequence (RedHat-7.1). > After some investigation it turned out that it hang in > the kudzu script, and further on also in the netfs script. > The programs `/usr/sbin/updfstab', `/usr/sbin/kudzu' and > the command `mount -a' are all falling into a loop. The scsi partition handling code in 2.4.10 is broken The cause seems to be the new gendisk changes, although quite why is still a mystery. ALan