Bug 180773

What actual message does it show, is there something on tty3 (alt +f3) like:

moving (1) to step accounts
moving (1) to step reposetup
Warning, could not load sqlite, falling back to pickle

also check tty4 (alt + F4) for OOM killer message when it hangs.

I'm pretty sure you are experiencing bug #176492 and that will confirm it for me.

Hi again.

For a straight "Enter" install 
TTY3 gives
 .....
  inserted /tmp/ieee1394.ko
  inserted /tmp/ohci1394.ko
  load module set done
  probing for firewire scsi devices
  modules to insert pcmcia_core yenta_core pcmcia
  load module set done
  modules to insert mii b44 yenta_socket libata ahci
  loaded mii from /modules/modules.cgz
  loaded b44 from /modules/modules.cgz
  loaded libata from /modules/modules.cgz
  loaded ahci from /modules/modules.cgz
  inserted /tmp/mii.ko
  inserted /tmp/b44.ko
  inserted /tmp/libata.ko
  inserted /tmp/ahci.ko
  load module set done
  trying to mount CD device hdc
no more messages..

TTY4
......
  eth0: Broadcomm 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:76:.. (MAC)
  libata version 1.20 loaded
  ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.2
  ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] - > Link [LINKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ5
  ACPI: PCI Interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.2 disabled
  ahci: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -12
  hdc: lost interrupt
  hdc: lost interrupt
  hdc: lost interrupt
  ide-cd: cmd 0x1e timed out
  hdc: lost interrupt
  repeats...


Turning ACPI off  ie "linux acpi=off" does not improve the situation. you still
get the ahci probe failure followed by the lost interrupts as above.

When doing a network install "linux askmethod" and selecting ftp.
we get through to the selection of language. 
on TTY3 the message saying   "trying to mount CD device hdc"
does not appear as before.
After getting to the point of selecting th IP information, I select DHCP and set
it off, however the information is not retrieved.
TTY3
  continuing from after "inserted /tmp/ahci.ko"
  load module set done
  setting language to en_US.UTF-8
  53 keympas are available
  need to set up networking
  going to pick an interface
  only have one network device: eth0    (odd the wirless device isn't found)
  going to do getNetConfig
  eth0 isn't a wireless adaptor
  running dhcp for eth0

TTY4
  irq9: nobody cared (try booting with "irqpoll" option)
  [<c01368a5>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69 [<c0136969>] note_interrupt+0x6d/0xa0
  [<c01363cd>] do_IRQ+0x9a/0xcd [<c0010548d>] do_IRQ+0x69/0x77
  [<c0103c9a>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c01362fe>] handle_IRQ_event+0x17/0x4c
  [<c01363ad>] do_IRQ+0x7a/0xcd [<c00105480>] do_IRQ+0x5c/0x77
  [<c0103c9a>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c01362fe>] gen_new_estimator+0x5d/0x15d

  more of the same.. including "do_softirq" messages
  inode_has_perm

  Disabling IRQ #9 appears on last line....   

OK now there is a hint... I tried doing the network install with the irqpoll
kernel option and the network worked :)
HOWEVER the normal install still failed on trying to mount the cdrom..

I have to go out for dinner now I will continue to finish the installation later.

I think this still needs to remain open to solve the normal install issue

Thanks
    Richard

Hmm  quickly filled out the login info to see how much further it would go...
and after filling out login info and saying continue, the installer stopped again..

The same maessage appears on TTY3 
  trying to mount CD device hdc

on TTY4 we get 
  lost interrupt

OK no time to try anything else at the moment will get back later

Done some more reading and this appears to be a rather widespread issue, and
seems to be assosciated with changes that were made to the acpi code
However I haven't been able to look much further than that 

I booted into the older FC3 installation on this laptop to get model info etc
from the cdrom.
The kernel used for this was 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and the CDROM works but the network
interface won't. previously 2.6.9-1.667 kernel both CDROM and network were fine

CDROM is a    NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6500A
I'm unable to set DMA to on with this drive... comes back with operation not
permitted.. hmm


I have tried burning the install CD at 1x and the install still fails at the
same spot.
I've tried lots of different combinations with regard to dma and apic settings
such as off, noirq etc and nothing changes the situation,  I'd really like to
get this going for obvious reasons and it is frustrating that this is obviously
a regression of some sort

Thanks
  Richard

Hi
   I've managed to find a possible kernel trap discussion on this
http://kerneltrap.org/node/5836

I have tried using the libata.atapi_enabled=1 as a boot parameter but it will
not work

It would be REALLY nice if TTY2 was up and actually working at this point so you
could do some manual fishing around.

I've tried using the noprobe boot parameter option to enable manual loading of
the drivers, however I can't seem to find any reference to libata in the driver
list. Using the noprobe option does bring tty2 up but the instant you enter a
command it locks the terminal....

Thanks
    Richard

This problem does not exist in FC5 Test 3 anymore.
Everything seems to get probed correctly so I think this can be closed.
(well at least for this Dell inspiron 9300 system)

Thanks
   Richard

OK maybe not fully solved...
Although a straight CD install will work fine,  Trying a network install will
not bring up the network card correctly.
However using the kernel config option "irqpoll" will get around this.
Seems that without this option we are still seeing irq9 being disabled.

So maybe don't close this yet, but I'm not sure how I can help debug this?

Thanks
    Richard

please file a seperate bug for the networking problem. multiple problems in one
bug causes all kinds of confusion especially when searching for bugs.