Re: New kernel fails on thinkpad systems

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On the thinkpad 600 series machines the new kernel kills all
> keyboard and mouse I/O - can people try and test the other thinkpad
> systems and see how common the problem is.

I've tried installing the 424 kernel on a TP-600E (with 224M ram) - and
I got the following errors:

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Test transaction complete, Success!
kernel 100 % done 1/1 
memlock: Cannot allocate memory
Couldn't lock into memory, exiting.
mkinitrd failed
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I tried setting all limits I can think off - to unlimited - and then
the kernel would install. (it took something like 30 min for the
install)

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[root localhost etc]# ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) unlimited
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited
[root localhost etc]# rpm -ivh /var/cache/yum/2.6testkernels/packages/kernel-2.6.6-1.424.i686.rpm 
warning: /var/cache/yum/2.6testkernels/packages/kernel-2.6.6-1.424.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
 ID 9d6b4012
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel                 ########################################### [100%]
[root localhost etc]#

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I tried to see if the same problem was there with the release kernel
(358) - but this one installs fine - and within 10 min.

I've briefly tried APM suspend - and audio on the 600E (with kernel
424) - and it appeared to work fine.

Satish