Today's Next failed to boot on x86_64 box with following
messages.

PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
registered taskstats version 1
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1360k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 4980k

At this point the machine hangs. The corresponding code
looks to be the following snippet from init/main.c

static noinline int init_post(void)
        __releases(kernel_lock)
{
	......

        if (sys_open((const char __user *) "/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0)
                printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hangs here ^^^^^^^^^

	......
}

Next 20090723 was fine. (20090724 failed due to a failure
during 8250 init.)

Complete boot log and config attached.

Thanks
-Sachin


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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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