Bug 37216
| Summary: | Installation hangs immediately upon 'Initialising PC Cards' (PCMCIA related) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Neil Bird <neil> |
| Component: | kernel-pcmcia-cs | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | bfox, pfrields |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-26 01:54:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Neil Bird
2001-04-23 15:47:59 UTC
Bill, is this a problem with kudzu detecting devices that aren't there or is the kernel? No. It's a loader bug. Slight inaccuracies - the message is 'Initialising PC Card Devices', and the option I work around it with is 'expErt nopcmcia'. ISTRT linux nopcmcia works OK too. FWIW, here's my quickly jotted copy of the logging info. - just the last, seemingly pertinant, bits (sorry - there's a bit of my writing I can't now read!): Console F3: * startPcmcia * pcmcia probe returned: |PCI bridge probe: not found Intel PCIC probe: not found Databook TCIC-2 probe: at 0x240; Unknown TCIC-2 <something> 0x00 found at 0x240, 2 sockets | * need to load tcic * going to insmod pcmcia_core.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod tcic.o (path is NULL) Console F4: <6> LinuxPCMCIA CardServices 3.1.22 <6> options: [pci] [cardbus] I can then chose diff. consoles (<Alt-Ctrl>) but it never goes any further. Can you boot into the installed system and run '/sbin/probe'? What happens then? I found /usr/sbin/probe through the bash prompt *during* installation; it's not there in the final 7.1 install that I now have. It's output mirrors previously reported messages: % /usr/sbin/probe PCI bridge probe: not found Intel PCIC probe: not found Databook TCIC-2 probe: at 0x240: Unknown TCIC-2 ID 0x00 found at 0x240, 2 sockets Exactly the same as previously reported, in fact, looking back. The bit I mis-scribbled was "ID". probe is part of the kernel-pcmcia-cs package. For some reason, the system thinks that it has pcmcia devices that aren't there. Changing component to the kernel. Bad news, I'm afraid. The new 7.2 installation hangs for pretty much the same reason. However, this time it's even worse: the freeze (in the same 'looking for cards' place) completely locks the machine (<Alt-Ctrl-F> keys won't swap sessions and a-c-del won't reboot). Booting 'nopcmcia' does the trick again, fortunately. Does this need to be re-raised on 7.2? I have a BP6 at home and it doesn't show this AT ALL, strangely. Can you attach the output of lspci ? And do you have isa cards in the machine ? Also the version of pcmcia-cs that anaconda uses is very old; seems it might want updating...... Will get lspci output when I get home. I have an ancient ISA network card. I'll see if the hang occurs with that ripped out. Not had chance to try the boot disc without the ISA network card yet. # /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 07) 00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 07) 00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:13.1 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) Yep, unplugging the old ISA ethernet card solved it. I've bozzed a PCI card instead and it all works swimmingly now. Not that that necessarily narrows down the lock up ... hopefully fixed in current releases, please reopen if reproducable with Fedora/RHEL. Thanks. |