[Buildroot] kernel boot problem

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Sagaert Johan <sagaert.johan at skynet.be> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I receive this on the console when my system boots:
>
> When i build the same kernel (same version ,same patches and same kernel config )
> With 2011.11 : panic !
> With 2010.02 : ok
>
> Kernel 2.6.31.9 ,build with gcc 4.5.3
>
> Any idea (both are build in OABI but EABI yields same problem)?
>
> snip
> ....
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: sda1 < sda5 > sda2
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 8:5.
> Freeing init memory: 112K
> BUG: Bad page state in process init  pfn:204b6
> page:c04086c0 flags:00000400 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:(null) index:0
> [<c002a748>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xd0) from [<c006b5fc>] (bad_page+0x104/0x138)
> [<c006b5fc>] (bad_page+0x104/0x138) from [<c006d1c4>] (get_page_from_freelist+0x344/0x470)
> [<c006d1c4>] (get_page_from_freelist+0x344/0x470) from [<c006d3d8>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xe8/0x518)
> [<c006d3d8>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0xe8/0x518) from [<c006fa08>] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x114/0x260)[<c006fa08>]
> (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x114/0x260) from [<c006fdbc>] (ra_submit+0x20/0x24)
> [<c006fdbc>] (ra_submit+0x20/0x24) from [<c0067e8c>] (filemap_fault+0x1f0/0x434)
>
> [<c0067e8c>] (filemap_fault+0x1f0/0x434) from [<c007a128>] (__do_fault+0x50/0x404)
>
> This is from the one build in 2010.02 and is OK
>
> Snip
> ...
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: sda1 < sda5 > sda2
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 8:5.
> Freeing init memory: 120K
> init started: BusyBox v1.15.3 (2010-04-30 12:24:59 CEST)
> UBIFS error (pid 348): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi0:data", error -19
> starting pid 352, tty '': '/etc/init.d/rcS'
> Populating /dev using udev: done
> Starting portmap: done
> Initializing random number generator... done.
> Starting network...
> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> Starting dropbear sshd: OK
> Starting inetd : OK
> sucses 0 adding beeper0
> doing timer start
> Major =251
> sucses 0 adding oled0
> OLED: Loaded
> ....
>
>

Can you compare the versions of other packages used between both
buildroot versions?
For example, busybox probably changed version. Can you try stepping back that ?