[Users] kernel 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 boot freeze

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 07/06/2010 12:59 AM, jehan procaccia wrote:
> hello,
>
> after upgrading to ovzkernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 , my Dell
> Poweredge 2950 doesn't boot anymore
> It freezes at the very start of the kernel boot sequence:
>
> ....
> Net: registered protocol family 1
> Net: registered protocol family 17
> Using IPI shortcut mode
> Time: hpet clocksource has been installed
> Initializing network drop monitor service
> Freeing unused kernel memory: (00764000-007a1000) 244k freed
> Wrtite protecting the kernel read-only data: 427k
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
>
> it freezes here ! apprently doing nothing !?
>
> I set back in grub my previous
> ovzkernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.028stab068.9 and it works fine again.
> but I would appreciate to be able to run the latest kernel .
> Any known bugs or problem with that
> ovzkernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 ?
>    

You haven't specified you architecture, but fortunately my magic crystal 
ball
is working flawlessly today. It tells me that you have mistakenly installed
i686 version of the kernel instead of x86_64 one. Please check if it is 
so and fix.

The fix should be something like
rpm -e ovzkernel.i686
yum install ovzkernel.x86_64

Regards,
   Kir.