Bug 208141

Summary: 8390 lockdep/BUG
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Philip Ashmore <contact>
Component: kernelAssignee: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 6CC: davej, linville, peterm, triage, wtogami
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Description Philip Ashmore 2006-09-26 16:42:46 UTC
Description of problem:
When installing FC6 test 3 before the graphical part of the installation
process, parts of the displayed text gets overritten by garbage - mostly the
bottom part.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Anaconda

How reproducible:
1 out of 1 times

Steps to Reproduce:
1. PXE boot FC6 test 3
2. Try to read as much/quickly as possible before display gets overwritten by
garbage
  
Actual results:
n/a

Expected results:
n/a

Additional info:
If you've done a few installs you can piece together what should be displayed in
order to continue.
Once the graphical part of the install commences, it's ok.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-27 18:53:07 UTC
This is a kernel oops -- can you switch to tty2 afterwards and grab /tmp/syslog?

Comment 2 Philip Ashmore 2006-09-28 16:32:48 UTC
Created attachment 137324 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 3 Philip Ashmore 2006-09-28 16:37:53 UTC
I had to swap hard disks between my two laptops to install this via PXE on a
spare partition, I then swapped them back again - I can't do that again.
I've attached my current /var/log/messages above in the hope that you can
determine the problem from that - I know I saw one kernel problem there.
Feel free to query/post bug reports based on any other problems you spot in this
log.

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2006-09-28 21:48:44 UTC
Two separate problems here, both a BUG(), and a lockdep trace.


Comment 5 John W. Linville 2006-09-29 15:25:44 UTC
The lockdep issue should be cured in 2.6.18.

Comment 6 Andy Gospodarek 2006-10-27 22:39:35 UTC
The BUG looks to be a mdelay in irg context....

Comment 7 Andy Gospodarek 2006-10-30 21:41:00 UTC
and in irq context

Comment 8 Andy Gospodarek 2007-02-01 20:17:45 UTC
The warning printed as a result of the mdelay in an irq context isn't critical.
 Are you still seeing both of these problems with the latest fc6 kernel or just
the BUG warning?

Comment 9 Philip Ashmore 2007-02-02 13:15:17 UTC
This was an installation problem with FC6 test 3 (see above) via PXE.

On a seperate install I attempted to use an update repository but the graphical
messages seemed to indicate that the FC6 core RPMS were the ones being installed.
The installation didn't complete so I had to go back to
1. Install base system - FC6 release 
2. yum -y update with a locally mirrored updates repository

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:51:45 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:25:08 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.