Bug 8677

Summary:	booting with initrd fails: request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
Product:	Other	Reporter:	Cyrill Helg (linux)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	other_other
Status:	REJECTED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.22_rc*	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	The kernel config

Description Cyrill Helg 2007-06-26 01:52:40 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:2.6.21
Distribution: gentoo
Hardware Environment: IBM Thinkpad T43
Software Environment:
Problem Description:

I can't boot all 2.6.22_rc* kernels with an initrd. When booting I get the following message about 6 times:

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000

If I disable the initrd, booting works without problems.


Steps to reproduce:

Comment 1 Cyrill Helg 2007-06-26 01:53:45 UTC

Created attachment 11882 [details]
The kernel config

I know this is a patched kernel. But this is a vanilla issue as I tested.

Comment 2 Cyrill Helg 2007-06-26 02:04:14 UTC

Ah and this discussion here might be related to my problem:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/31/384

Comment 3 Andrew Morton 2007-06-26 02:06:53 UTC

Subject: Re: [Bugme-new]  New: booting with initrd fails:
 request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:48:51 -0700 (PDT) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8677
> 
>            Summary: booting with initrd fails: request_module: runaway loop
>                     modprobe binfmt-0000
>            Product: Other
>            Version: 2.5
>      KernelVersion: 2.6.22_rc*
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Other
>         AssignedTo: other_other@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
>         ReportedBy: linux@solnet.ch
> 
> 
> Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:2.6.21
> Distribution: gentoo
> Hardware Environment: IBM Thinkpad T43
> Software Environment:
> Problem Description:
> 
> I can't boot all 2.6.22_rc* kernels with an initrd. When booting I get the
> following message about 6 times:
> 
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
> 
> If I disable the initrd, booting works without problems.
> 
> 

I seem to recall having seen reports of this before.  Does anyone recall
the reason for it?

Comment 4 Cyrill Helg 2007-06-26 06:10:45 UTC

I'm sorry but this problem was caused by this patch:
http://dl.liveforge.org/ragnarok-sources/2.6.22-rc6/broken-out/acpi-dsdt-initrd-v0.8.4-2.6.22.patch