Bug 118882
| Summary: | Machine doesn't boot SMP Kernel after installation | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jim Paradis <jparadis> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | herrmann, peterm, petrides, riel | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-12 01:08:44 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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The Version information in the bug report is inaccurate. In fact it was tested and is reproducable with kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.0.1.ELsmp from the Update 1 ISO images. Are you still seeing this bug with the latest kernel? I have not been able to reproduce it so far on my 2885. I could reproduce the problem any time on my system. Unfortunately my system is now at Red Hat Germany for analyzing the problem. You should contact your german colleauge Lars Herrmann for details about their investigation. Created attachment 99812 [details]
Capture of kernel boot messages until crash
Tried out the RH EL 3.0 WS Update 2 beta now. The problem is now that the
kernel panics. See attached capture of kernel messages.
This latest manifestation is a duplicate of Bug 119009, for which there is a fix in the most recent respin of the U2 kernel (2.4.21-15.EL). Until then, the workaround is to do the install with "maxcpus=1". Try that and let me know how the system comes up once you've installed it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119009 *** Yes, I can install with "maxcpus=1". Looks fine now. My only worry is about the fact that I wasn't able to locate kernel 2.4.21-15.EL on RHN, so I installed 2.4.21-14.ELsmp instead. :-) We intend to release the official U2 kernel (2.4.21-15.EL) with the rest of RHEL 3 on Monday of next week. Please try getting it from the normal RHN channel on Tuesday. (The beta channel only has -14.EL.) An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040130 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Installed a fresh Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Workstation for AMD64 from CDs. Installation seemed to be ok, but on the first reboot the machine stops responding. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.4.18-9EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Workstation for x86_64 from CD 2. Go through the normal reboot 3. Actual Results: Machine stops. The last lines that appear are: "Initalizing RT netlink socket" and after a while "schedule_task(): keventd has not started" At this point the machine is dead, not responding to keypressures any more. Expected Results: Normal boot. Additional info: Machine is a Tyan-2885 based dual opteron workstation. If I boot the non-SMP kernel it works, but not with the SMP kernel. Same machine works fine with SuSE 9.0 for AMD64 or even Fedora Core 1 for AMD64.