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hangs on init start with 'block clobbered'

2.4.22-pre4 J.A. Magallon 1 participant 2 messages Jul 11, 2003

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Hi all...

Plain 2.4.22-pre4 hangs when tries to launch init. booting to runlevel 5 I get:

INIT: version 2.85 booting
INIT: Entering runlevel 5

malloc: block on free list clobbered
Stopping myself...Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

If i try to boot in singleuser (runlevel 1), the booting process just stops after the version line.

Any ideas ?

Notes:
- Kernel is built with gcc-3.3.1 prerelease
- Previous kernels work fine (built with plain 3.3)(I did nor try -pre3)
- -pre2 does not emit the 'Entering...' message. ???

So I tend to blame gcc. Will try to rebuild -pre2 with gcc-3.3.1 to see if the compiler is the reason. But if anyone has a clue, I would be grateful.

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Hi all...

Plain 2.4.22-pre4 hangs when tries to launch init. booting to runlevel 5 I get:

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INIT: version 2.85 booting
INIT: Entering runlevel 5

malloc: block on free list clobbered
Stopping myself...Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

If i try to boot in singleuser (runlevel 1), the booting process just stops after the version line.

One more clue: I booted with init=/bin/bash. It got to the bash prompt. I did an 'ls' (I was at /). It showed all the entries _DUPLICATED_ ( two /bin, two /boot ....), and then panic'ed again.
So perhaps it is some code in the fs layer what is miscompiled... The system hangs as soon as I touch the disk.

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