Bug 175767
| Summary: | Installer appears to hang when loading mptbase module | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Jeff Burke <jburke> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Brian Maly <bmaly> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 3.7 | CC: | coughlan, jlaska, lwang, peterm, petrides, tao | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Regression | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0144 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-03-15 16:56:51 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 168426 | ||||||||
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Description
Jeff Burke
2005-12-14 20:12:03 UTC
Created attachment 122246 [details]
Sceen shot of the problem.
Just FYI: x86_64 kernel in viper with onboard MPT card -- works i386 kernel in viper with onboard MPT card -- fails i386 kernel in viper with add-on MPT card -- fails x86_64 kernel on non-HP (non-nVidia chipset) with add-on MPT card -- works i386 kernel on non-HP (non-nVidia chipset) with add-on MPT card -- works So it appears to be limited to MPT cards on the Viper when running the i386 kernel. The removal of linux-2.4.21-fusion-backup-20511.patch should not have any effect. That is the old "backup" driver. It has a different name and is not loaded by default. I confirmed that it is not being loaded on the console log of a failing and a passing machine. Both are loading the current driver (which has not changed in U7, BTW). I am doing a kernel rebuild on beehive now. Created attachment 122425 [details]
.8 agp patch
I went back through the 2.4.21-37.* kernels until I found the first one that
fails:
kernel-2.4.21-37.7.EL.i686.rpm - works
kernel-2.4.21-37.8.EL.i686.rpm - fails
The patch in .8 that seems to have caused the problem is:
* Wed Nov 2 2005 Ernie Petrides <petrides> kernel-2.4.21-37.8.EL
- add detection of PCI peer bridges on x86 for AGP tunnels (Brian Maly)
When I remove this patch from .8, it boots on this box.
Note that, according to Ernie's patch tracking file, some additional hunks were
added to this patch in -37.9.EL to fix pci-pc.c build warnings. These do not
appear to be relevant, since the failure first occurs in -37.8, and persists in
-37.9 and -38.
The exact patch that I backed out to get the system to boot is attached.
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-39.EL). *** Bug 179168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** An advisory 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-2006-0144.html |