[sysvinit-devel] init hangs on select()

[Jason]

I went from kernel 2.6.23.5 to 2.6.37 and init hangs before switching to 
run level 3.  It executes all initial system scripts via "rc sysinit" at 
sysinit runlevel but never switches to run level 3 which is my 
initdefault.  This was first seen with sysvinit-2.86 so I upgraded to 
sysvinit-2.88dsf and still I have the same issue.

I then enabled debug and added my own debug statements and found that 
it's hanging on select() inside check_init_fifo().  Why would select() 
hang when it has a five second timeout set?

Kernels 2.6.23.17 and 2.6.25.20 work fine.  Kernels 2.6.35.10, 2.6.37, 
2.6.38-rc1 all have the init hang issue.

I am compiling init on a 2.6.23.5 system so I don't know if that is an 
issue or not.  The system has gcc 4.0.1 and glibc-2.3.5.  Is there a 
requirement to have glibc compiled against newer kernel headers?

Jason