Bug 135134
| Summary: | rhgb + agp i915 hangs kernel-2.6.8.1-603smp boot on dual P3 system | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jason Vas Dias <jvdias> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | pfrields, xgl-maint |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.9-1.639 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-20 21:59:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 130887 | ||
did -598 work ? Does booting with agp=off help ? (i915 agp driver changed recently) with rhgb disabled, does it boot into runlevel 5 and startx ok ? Yes, it booted -598 fine. As the previous comment states, -603 boots fine without the 'rhgb' boot option. Aha! I just found out: with the agp=off option, it boots fine in graphical mode too. It looks like this is a kernel (i915 agp driver) problem . I'll move it to the kernel. I am still having to boot kernel 541 because both 598 and 603 have both failed to boot the non smp kernel. It gets to the point where it goes to the graphical boot (which I actually dispise, how do I get it to stop and show me the OKs) then simply goes black. Ctl-Alt-Del does not reboot, no activity (hard drive, etc). Hardware: Intel 865 PE50, using onboard video Today I did an rpm -e on rhgb and all is right with the world again. Not only do I have 603 booting, I don't have that awful Microsoftish boot up. My reassuring OK's are now gracing my screen.... ahhhhhhhhh So, it appears that there must be some type of incompatability between the graphical boot system and Intel video cards. Good Luck This bug could be related to bug #132267 - more problems with Intel video cards and X . It probably is the same bug, caused by rhgb starting 2 X servers simultaneously which wont work on Intel video hardware. I've reproduced the problem on an i830 chipset, but upgrading to the -610 kernel solves the problem for me. Could you try to update to -610 (it's probably best to avoid -624) and see if it also solves your problem? Thanks. This is now fixed in kernel-2.6.9-1.639+ . |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: kernel-2.6.8.1-603smp fails to boot at all with with the 'rhgb' boot option on a dual P3 processor system. It boots fine without the rhgb option, and the non-smp kernel boots fine on a different uniprocessor system. I don't know if this is a kernel problem or an rhgb problem; but as the kernel boots OK without the 'rhgb' boot option, I'm raising it as a rhgb bug. I'm not sure how to gather more debug information on this; with the rhgb option, the smp kernel doesn't boot at all - I've tracked it down to where it sets the clock in rc.sysinit, around line 234, after the 'action ... sysctl', in 'update_boot_stage RCclock' If I enable the sysrq=1 sysctl option in sysctl.conf, change to VT1 when the boot hangs, and press sysrq, I get this message on the console: /etc/init.d/functions: line 428: /etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console: Interrupted system call and the system hangs, never booting nor responding to any boot key sequence (like ctrl+alt+del) - so I have to power-off and remove the 'rhgb' option or supply the '-s' option in order to boot. This happens both with and without selinux enabled, with all RPMS updated to rawhide-20041008 . The system has 2 x 2.8GHz P3s (model 3) with an Intel 915G video card. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhgb-0.13.5-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot kernel-2.6.8-1.603smp on a dual processor system with rhgb option Actual Results: System never boots Expected Results: System should boot OK. Additional info: