From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756681Ab1FFHUK (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 03:20:10 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47375 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751506Ab1FFHUH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 03:20:07 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Hamilton Subject: Re: 2.6.39 hangs on boot Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201105282235.24530.M4rkusXXL@web.de> <201105301505.57407.M4rkusXXL@web.de> <20110530141841.GA20420@gere.osrc.amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.56.238.24 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091205 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I tried the vanilla 2.6.39 today, but it doesnt even boot. The last > lines I see are: > ... > Switching to clocksource tsc I have the same problem with hang on boot with 2.6.39. It hangs at the same point with the same message. The problem seems to be fbcondecor. Recompile your initrd without fbcondecor and all works well, of course without a pretty background. After boot-up splash_manager -c set can set up a pretty background, but splash_manager -c switch produces a dysfunctional initrd. Andrew