On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:41:55PM -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: > Rob Kampen wrote: >> Hi List, >> I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. >> Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel >> was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release. >> The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to the 128.4.1 kernel >> and the boot process is under way. >> after some 30 secs the system starts beeping - continuously. >> After I hooked up a monitor I find that udev does not come up with OK >> and thats when the system starts the beep beep beep ...... ... > Still no joy with the latest kernel - fails at initialization of udevd > with beep beep beep ....... > I have tried a new version of the rr174x raid controller device driver, > new make and make install but still the same issue. Not sure if this > module is looked at by udev or not - I'm way out of my depth here. > > Currently server is functioning fine on > Linux obfuscated.example.com 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 14 > 06:36:37 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > but I'm perturbed why a simple update of the kernel kills my server - > not what I expected from CentOS / RHEL. > What tests / things should I check? I see no files in /etc with dates > after Jul 21 (date I installed 128.2.1 kernel) that appear to contain > any device related changes The changelog from 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 to 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5: * Fri Jul 24 2009 Don Howard <dhoward at redhat.com> [2.6.18-128.4.1.el5] - [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 11 packet literal data buffer size (Eric Sandeen ) [512862 512863] {CVE-2009-2406} - [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 3 packet encrypted key size (Eric Sandeen ) [512886 512887] {CVE-2009-2407} - [misc] personality handling: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [511173 508842] {CVE-2009-1895} - [xen] HV: remove high latency spin_lock (Chris Lalancette ) [512311 459410] * Tue Jul 14 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko at redhat.com> [2.6.18-128.3.1.el5] - [pci] quirk: disable MSI on VIA VT3364 chipsets (Dean Nelson ) [507529 501374] - [char] tty: prevent an O_NDELAY writer from blocking (Mauro Carvalho Chehab ) [510239 506806] - [misc] hrtimer: fix a soft lockup (Amerigo Wang ) [418061 418071] {CVE-2007-5966} - [misc] hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow (AMEET M. PARANJAPE ) [510018 492230] Do you see anything relevant to your hardware? Since you mention that udev has started, we can rule out the kernelbooting/initrd stage. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090821/ce17f17e/attachment-0003.sig>