Bug 130120
| Summary: | LTC11062-Not able to install Linux on LPAR via ftp | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Rama Moorthy <rmoorthy> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | billgo, bugproxy, chanphil, jglauber, mgrf, pknirsch, salm, yasamin | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | s390x | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-22 14:33:01 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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This was for RHEL4, Alpha4? If so, it needs to be changed to a different Product and Version. I believe the Product needs to be "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta', and after submitting that, rhel4-alpha4 will become an option. Hello Suzanne, we do not have a choice to select " Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta' Do we need to gain access to a specific access group to open bugzillas against the RHEL4 alpha 4 ? Then please let us know Try to change the version ..unable to do it Are there any error messages from the kernel at the point that it hangs? Can you ping the LPAR? Rama the originator cannot edit this bugzilla anymore since it is flagged for 'RHEL4 alpa4' Real name 'Georg Markgraf' Error Messages are not displayed. It is posible to execute some of the linux commands in the HMC console (Operating System Messages) The transfer stopped e.g. with package 51 from 454 from rpmdb-redhat- 3.93-0.20040722-s390x Georg, with a different selection of packages the transfer does complete. For example selection of: - Editors, -Development tools, -Gnome, -Administration tools it works. I cannot switch off 'need info' please have a look on this to get it resolved Can you ping the lpar still? We are not able to ping to LPAR. But we can perform some linux commands in the HMC console(Operating System Messages) Created attachment 103785 [details]
LPAR-31bit.jpg
----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-13 11:29 ------- LPAR-31bit-error screen shot Network error during RHEL4 beta1(31 bit) on LPAR via ftp.. ----- Additional Comments From mgrf.com 2004-09-16 06:22 EDT ------- Bill please have a look on this. The LPAR install, 31 bit only, does always break. Do we need another update for beta 1 to install ? ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-20 10:39 EDT ------- Hi Please pick up this ChangeSet.25.44 if not picked up.This may help in fixing the problem Regards, Rama Moorthy ----- Additional Comments From mgrf.com 2004-09-20 11:08 EDT ------- 1.) The patch mentioned above is a must for network loads. 2.) Kunal Rama, Please use a different network driver to install, e.g. FE instead GbE that could be the reason that it works in POK and not in BOE. ----- Additional Comments From salina.com 2004-09-20 15:09 EDT ------- Rama, Where is your bitkeeper tree ? Is it linus.bkbits.net or somewhere else ? ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-21 03:43 EDT ------- Hello salina, you may find its bookmarkable link here: http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@412f72364poHLd99_tjfpPKCMXIY4g Thanks and regards, Rama Moorthy ----- Additional Comments From salina.com 2004-09-21 10:37 EDT ------- Mark, I have added you to the cc list. This is z-series problem. Can you please make sure RH picks up the fix. Thanks ----- Additional Comments From markwiz.com 2004-09-21 12:50 EDT ------- This bug is marked as "Needinfo" on the Red Hat side. What is Red Hat waiting for? I do not see a request for a injformation. Am I missing something? It was in Needinfo state ever since 8/18 when Jeremy asked if LPAR could be pinged. ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-22 08:16 EDT ------- Hi If the change ChangeSet.25.44, 2004-08-27 10:41:10-07:00,has been picked up could we get an rpm in advance please ?.This is critcal need to perform ongoing stress tests and also perform further tests with this rpm in BOE. Thanks in advance. Rama ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-27 10:32 EDT ------- Hi I have tried to install 31/64 with Beta Refresh .I am getting the same error. Regards, Rama Moorthy ----- Additional Comments From mgrf.com 2004-09-28 10:30 EDT -------
1.) Did the patch make it into beta1 refresh ?
Cannot see any info on that, the bugzilla only changed to fixed.
2.) As per Ramas update I re-open this because retest did fail.
----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-29 05:57 EDT -------
Hi
When I retested in beta refresh I observed some points
1) The package transfer initiated by anaconda does stop at different transfer
rates. Installation hangs
2) When I performed a linux command in HMC console "ls" (in Operating
System Messages) I got the following error
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption: 0x00000000801c6f70 ***
Aborted
3) In RedHat bugzilla I have a seen a bug which has the same error message as
above #132707 (Product: Fedora Core, Version: fc3test2
Component: e2fsprogs Platform i386)
4) The LPAR Memory is
a) Central Storage: 1024 MB
b) Expanded 0 MB
This is critcal need to perform ongoing stress tests and also perform further
tests with this rpm in BOE.
Regards,
Rama
1) should be kernel item. Testing the kernel on an installed machine should be used to stress test the kernel and add more information on how to reproduce it. 2) ls/busybox did get further updates, is working now internally 3) e2fsprogs is fixed internally, will be part of the next beta ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-09-30 11:57 EDT ------- Hello Bill, Since we do not have LPAR-LINUX installed in BOE ,Could you please put some network stress on LPAR-LINUX and let us know Thanks in advance.. Regards, Rama Hello Phil, in BOE the level of the OSA µcode is 616. Its a z990, so that is most recent level. Could you please provide the OSA level you used with your LPAR installs, thanks Georg How do i get the OSA µcode level?! And keep in mind that we also don't have any LPAR-LINUX installations running. If the patch that was mentioned earlier did make it into 2.6.8 we should be fine. Read ya, Phil ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-10-11 23:28 EDT -------
Hi,
When i tried to install Linux(LPAR),in dmesg(HMC Operating system Messages) i
observed an entry for oom-killer which terminates many processess.
Below is the dmesg.
dmesg(part of dmesg)
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....
....
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 32, high 0, batch 16
Normal per-cpu:empty
HighMem per-cpu:empty
....
....
Out of Memory :Killed Process 2076(update-desktop-).
....
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Additional Informaion
1)MTU Size 1492
2)Additional Info
meminfo
MemTotal: 1025236 kB
MemFree: 2656 kB
Buffers: 20852 kB
Cached: 72856 kB
SwapCached: 831996 kB
Active: 51200 kB
Inactive: 903436 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 1025236 kB
LowFree: 2656 kB
SwapTotal: 2403976 kB
SwapFree: 437764 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 814484 kB
Mapped: 29296 kB
Slab: 51424 kB
Committed_AS: 2202800 kB
PageTables: 4972 kB
VmallocTotal: 4293910528 kB
VmallocUsed: 4120 kB
VmallocChunk: 4293906080 kB
-/bin/sh-3.00# uname -r
2.6.8-1.528.2.10
-/bin/sh-3.00# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1025236 1022964 2272 0 20436
Swap: 2403976 1128412 1275564
Total: 3429212 2151376 1277836
-/bin/sh-3.00# vmstat -a
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free inact active si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 1710168 2448 896136 57968 8 11611 176 11823 87 154 4 49 15
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Regards,
Rama
As discussed in yesterdays call:
1.) Jan please verify in the new RH kernel that
ChangeSet.25.44 is included !
2.) We now have problem with network load.
After manipulation we could install LPAR:
Data will come when we know it s the same problem
ChangeSet.25.44 is included at least starting with version kernel-2.6.8-1.607 ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-10-18 08:58 EDT ------- Hi All, After the OSA card replacement the file transfer problem does not seem to reoccur. Regards, Rama ----- Additional Comments From salina.com 2004-10-18 12:16 EDT ------- Rama, Please say which version of Redhat are you using and no longer see the problem. Thanks. ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-10-18 22:28 EDT ------- Hi The Version is RHEL4 Beta1 Refresh. RPM :rpm-4.3.2-4 Kernel :2.6.8-1.528.2.10 Regards, Rama ----- Additional Comments From rmoorthy.com 2004-10-20 03:05 EDT ------- Hi Please change the status to Modified.I am not able to edit the bug in RedHat Bugzilla eventhough i am the owner of this BUG :).When i try to change the status getting a error "You are not permitted to edit bugs in product Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta" Note :I have already updated the bug. Regards, Rama ----- Additional Comments From salina.com 2004-10-20 11:08 EDT ------- I can close this in IBM bugzilla, so doing that. Question: Does the fixes for 2.) + 3.) still get integrated
when bug is closed because 1.) is not a bug ?
Do we need to re-open this to get 2.)+3.) integrated ?
See also comment #26 following: Thanks Georg
1) should be kernel item. Testing the kernel on an installed machine
should be used to stress test the kernel and add more information
on how to reproduce it.
2) ls/busybox did get further updates, is working now internally
3) e2fsprogs is fixed internally, will be part of the next beta
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Not able to complete the installation, Installation hangs, Error messages are not displayed The installation did stop at different install steps. After LPAR setup and boot, the package transfer initiated by anaconcda does stop at different transfer rates. That has been observed within several installs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.7-1.451.2.3, rpm-4.3.2-0.4, RHEL4 A4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Enter the boot parameters in LPAR 2.Connect via telnet to the new Linux for starting installation Actual Results: The package transfer initiated by anaconcda does stop at different transfer rates.Installation hangs, Error messages are not displayed Expected Results: Installation should complete without problem Additional info: