From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F716177.6060607@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:18:47 +0200 From: Helge Hafting MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5-mm4 boot crash References: <20030922013548.6e5a5dcf.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: test5-mm4 crashed during RAID-1 autodetection and setup. It got as far as: md: created md0 md: bind md: bind md: running: After this, I usually get this (from test5-mm3 dmesg): raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Instead, I got the dump at the end of this message. I'm using devfs and Viro's compile fix for devfs in mm4. The root fs is on raid-1, the raid-1 gets autodetected. The kernel has no module support, and no initrd. Here's the dump: Unable to handle null pointer deref at virtual address 00000000 eip c02b7d1e eip at md_probe PREEMPT process swapper pid:1 Trace: invalidate_inode_pages do_md_run printk autorun_array autorun_devices mddev_put autostart_arrays igrab md_ioctl devfs_open dentry_open filp_open blkdev_ioctl sys_ioctl md_run_setup prepare_namespace init init kernel_thread_helper Attempted to kill init! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org