Looks like RedHat has done it again. Way back in the day I got pretty pissed off at RedHat for their release of 7.0 with tons of beta software in it. Upgrades always seemed to go badly for this version, and things didn't get any better until about 7.2 (and 7.3 is still my benchmark version). Because of 7.0 I decided to never install a RedHat X.0 release.
8.0 came and went and then RedHat went to a new numbering scheme, leaving RedHat 9 (no dot) as the obvious 8.1 release.
So I do my upgrade after waiting a few weeks to see if any showstopper bugs appeared, and then changed my sources, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade.....
The upgrade itself went SUPER-SMOOTH, but the subsequent reboot did not. The boot process hanged itself while mounting fstab entries. A reboot on a recovery CD revealed no obvious errors in the boot log, just that everything stopped while mounting.
I removed all unnecessary entries and tried again, and the boot went as normal.
The problem?
RedHat 9 (or more specifically their 2.4.20 kernel) will not correctly mount SMB filesystems because of a race condition in RedHat's version of GLIBC. SMB Mount commands hang indefinitely (although you can manually ctrl-c out of command line called ones and still ahve a successful mount). There is no current fix, although going back to the 2.4.18 kernel is a viable work-around. I have been able to get the 2.4.18 kernel to correctly mount high speed USB2.0 drives as well, which is the only real reason to run 2.4.20 anyways as far as I am concerned. Also, custom kernels don't seem to have the same problem.
Recommendation? Stay away from RedHat 9, or run the 2.4.18 kernel from RedHat 8.0 in the meantime.
Posted by Enki at May 28, 2003 05:29 PM | TrackBackas of kernel RPM version 2.4.20-20.9 this problem appears fixed.
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