Bug 53631
| Summary: | Problem installing/upgrading RH Linux 7.1 Professional/Intel (RH32000US) on IBM 8656 xSeries 340 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mark Harig <maharig> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-09-14 20:29:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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When the error message appears, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any error messages? Here is the log from ctrl-alt-f4: (24 lines) <4> Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.0 <4> Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 1.0 <4> Vendor: IBM model: YGLv3 s2 Rev: 0 <4> Type: Processor ANSI SCSI Revision: 02 <4> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi 2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 <4> SCSI device sda: 71096320 512-byte hdwr sectors (36401MB) <6> Partition check: <6> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > <7> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP 1991A <4> Unable to identify CD-ROM format. <6> pcnet32_probe_pci: found device 0x001022.0x002000 <6> ioaddr=0x002000 resource_flags=0x000101 <6> eth0: PCnet/FAST III 79975 at 0x2000, 00 02 55 7c 9d 92 <6> pcnet32: pcnet32_private lp=df3fd000 lp_addr=0x1f3fd000 assigned IRQ 15. <6> pcnet32.c: v1.25kf 26.9.1999 tsbogend.de <6> raid0 personality registered as nr 2 <6> raid1 personality registered as nr 3 <6> raid5: measuring checksumming speed <4> 8 regs : 1651.200 MB/sec <4> 32 regs: 922.000 MB/sec <4> pII_mmx: 2256.800 MB/sec <4> 42380.800 MB/sec <4> raid5: using function: p5_mmx (2380.800MB/sec) <4> raid5 personality registered as nr4 Hmmm...nothing interesting in the output of VC4. Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma' with the installer. Does that help? Entering 'linux ide=nodma' following the 'linux: ' prompt appears to have fixed the problem. Once this is entered, the installation continues and successfully displays the Language Selection screen. I have rebooted using the installation CD (Binary CD 1 of 2) five times (four reboots using the reset button, one reboot by turning the power off and on) without any problems, so long as I enter 'linux ide=nodma'. Is this the resolution to the problem? Are there any implications to doing this that I should know about? Thank you for your help! Well, it just means that the kernel won't use DMA transfers for your hardware during the install. The kernel team enabled DMA transfers by default in the boot kernel, but it turned out to be a bad idea. Some CDROM drives go a little bonkers if they can't handle DMA transfers correctly. In the future, we will disable DMA transfers for CDROM drives in the boot kernel, so this problem should not happen again. The only ramification for you for 7.1 is that the install will be perhaps a little slower than it would have been if the cdrom drive could handle DMA transfers correctly. Lots of people had this problem, so we're just turning it off for the future. Thanks for your report. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: After reporting this problem to Red Hat Support, I received the following reply: >This seems to be an Anaconda issue. In cases like this, what we >recommend to our customer, is for them to visit our Bugzilla web >site, where our developers can assists you and analyze the error log. During both graphical and text-mode installation of RH Linux 7.1 the installation fails with the following messages: Running anaconda - please wait... XXX lineno: 165: opcode: 123 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 7, in ? if (os.path.exists ('isys')): File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 165, in exists """Test whether a path exists. Returns false for broken symbolic links""" SystemError: unknown opcode install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnt/source umount failed () /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system Rebooting the system (ctrl-alt-del) led to the same list of messages. RH Linux 6.2 installs without errors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert the first RH Linux 7.1 CD into the CD drive and boot. 2. Wait for the "Welcome to RH Linux" screen to prompt for action. 3. Select either graphical or text-mode installation/update. 4. During the running of the 'anaconda' program/script, the error log listed in the Description field is displayed. Actual Results: Running anaconda - please wait... XXX lineno: 165: opcode: 123 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 7, in ? if (os.path.exists ('isys')): File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 165, in exists """Test whether a path exists. Returns false for broken symbolic links""" SystemError: unknown opcode install exited abnormally sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /mnt/source umount failed () /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system Expected Results: The first screen of the installation should have been displayed, prompting for the Language Selection. Additional info: Hardware: IBM 8656 eserver xseries 340 with: Pentium III (Coppermine) 512 Mbytes RAM IBM ServerRAID: 2 hard drives (model ST336605LC) ServerRAID4LX, BIOS 4.70.17 SCSI Bus 1: ADAPTEC AIC-7899 SCSI Bus 2: same SCSI BIOS version 2.55 Quantum tape drive: DL6 8000 series, model TH8AL-MH CD ROM and floppy drive