I'm having problems with my system on rebooting to a new kernel. I don't know what is causing the problem, and have found nothing yet in the archives about similar circumstances. The new kernel is 2.2.9, the old was 2.0.36.
Once on reboot the system halted while starting lpd. Another time on gpm, which seemed to respond to a ^X. All times, though, things ground down to a grossly sluggish pace once reaching the login prompt. I have to shut the system off after login attempts, where each letter takes 5-10 seconds to appear, and login never completes. CAD gives no response either. The system once "died" at the xdm login window, and no key combinations gave any response. All affected files in /etc (recursively) have been changed to reflect tr0 instead of eth0 for my olicom PCI card. ISC's dhclient was recompiled with all proper changes made to the kernel config, and compiled under the 2.2.9 kernel without a working network connection. The kernel was recompiled with the tr card support not modularized, as it was not recognized otherwise (is there a way to force a module to be loaded immediately??? I can't tell if /etc/modules is supposed to work with 2.2.). The dhclient does attach properly AFAIK based on its messages. Other services appear to start normally except for complaints early on about some modules not being present. I think these are 2.0.36 modules. The 2.2.9 kernel worked without networking. At that time the tr support didn't exist due to the modularized nature of the driver, which is written for that kernel version. The new kernel was compiled using make-kpkg. Are there incompatibilities between slink and potato which need to be managed? Especially with respect to networking or other daemons, which I may encounter on this upgrade? Is this sluggishness possibly due to the dhcp client, which is said to not work with the 2.2 kernels (though it seems to, here)?? Anyone else see this kind of behavior?? Any thoughts?? Would it help if I got a list of the file names in /etc/init.d to list services in place? Thanks! Kenward
