lockups with 2.4.2x

From: evil (evil_at_g-house.de)
Date: 09/21/03

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    Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 2003 04:56:14 +0200
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    Hi y'all,

    i am in the need of some help tracing down mysterious lock-ups of my
    machine. with any vanilla kernel above 2.4.19 the machine boots, the it
    will take 1 to 3 minutes and the machine freezes. no Oops on the
    console, no warnings (e.g. no high load or mem-pressure), even SysReq is
    not working.

    i've already setup a script, writing

    /proc/modules|locks|ksyms

    to the disk every 2 seconds, because i suspected some 3rd party module i
    usually load to be the reason for the freezes. but it was not. please
    tell me, if other files are more interesting for this or what else i can
    do to get to the source to the problem.

    the machine:
    Dual Athlon, 1GB RAM (HighMem enabled), gcc 3.3.1, libc 2.3.2,
    (Debian/Testing) some more infos are on:

    http://nerdbynature.de/bits/freeze/config|cpuinfo|dmesg|lspci

    (directory listing follows...)

    I really appreciate some help here, i don't know where to start
    searching since no errors are shown :-(

    below are some further infos, but i don't know if they are related to
    this issue.

    Thank you for your time,
    Christian.

    before this whole mess i was using 2.4.19, but i wanted to upgrade to
    2.4.20, 2.4.21, did not make it, due to lack of time or need. 2.4.19 was
    running fine. but i need netfilter now, so i had to recompile
    modules+kernel! but, mysteriously, i fail to recompile my 2.4.19. i did
    "make mrproper", then even untar'ed a new archive, took the old config,
    "make oldconfig" went ok. then
    "make dep bzImage modules modules_install" stops within "bzImage":

    net/network.o(.text+0xf125): In function `rtnetlink_rcv':
    : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb'
    make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

    there was another issue with a vanilla 2.4.19, but i tried to fix it:

    http://nerdbynature.de/bits/freeze/semaphore.c.patch

    hm, is this gcc related? it did not like some missing "" terminations.
    ok, after fixing this, the error above showed up.

    so, i thought it was time to try 2.4.2x (now 2.4.22), but am somehow
    stuck now. on some completely other machines (PPC32 + single
    AMD/Athlon), 2.4.2x are running very fine.

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