Bug 690204

Summary: Dracut 008 showing white boxes with parameter "quiet"?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian>
Component: dracutAssignee: dracut-maint
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Boot screenshot showing white boxes none

Description Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-23 15:14:40 UTC
Description of problem:
  Ugly white boxes appear during boot, see screenshot attached

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  008

How reproducible:
  Happens each time

Additional info:
  uname -r == 2.6.37-gentoo-r1


Side notes: On the screenshot you see firmware load errors and an USB error, too. interestingly, I do have 3 (external) USB ports only.  Is there a way to get the firmware files into the initramfs?  Shall I open another bug for that or is it expected?

Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-23 15:15:47 UTC
Created attachment 487069 [details]
Boot screenshot showing white boxes

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2011-03-23 15:22:47 UTC
These "white boxes" are not from dracut.

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2011-03-23 15:29:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Side notes: On the screenshot you see firmware load errors and an USB error,
> too. interestingly, I do have 3 (external) USB ports only.  Is there a way to
> get the firmware files into the initramfs?  Shall I open another bug for that
> or is it expected?


All firmwares, which are referenced by kernel modules, and which could be found in /lib/firmware/ should have been copied in the initramfs.

$ ls /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000*
/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode  /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
$ ./dracut --add-drivers iwlagn -f -l ./test.img 
$ lsinitrd test.img|grep iwlwifi
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       353240 Apr 23  2009 lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       187972 Jun 23  2009 lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       337400 May 14  2009 lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       335056 Aug  7  2009 lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       454608 Jun  2  2010 lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-23 16:38:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> These "white boxes" are not from dracut.

I tried with 2.3.38 now, same white boxes.
What can I do to make them go away?


> All firmwares, which are referenced by kernel modules, and which could be found
> in /lib/firmware/ should have been copied in the initramfs.
> 
> $ ls /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000*
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode  /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
> $ ./dracut --add-drivers iwlagn -f -l ./test.img 
> $ lsinitrd test.img|grep iwlwifi
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       353240 Apr 23  2009
> lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       187972 Jun 23  2009
> lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       337400 May 14  2009
> lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       335056 Aug  7  2009
> lib/firmware/iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       454608 Jun  2  2010
> lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

Loos like I have different result over here.  I'm opening a new bug.
Thanks for the commands.

Comment 5 Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-23 16:52:14 UTC
(I've been using initrds from genkernel before without white boxes.)

Comment 6 Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-24 23:48:37 UTC
FYI I have reported these white boxes to Linux upstream now:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31862

Comment 7 Harald Hoyer 2011-03-25 11:04:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> FYI I have reported these white boxes to Linux upstream now:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31862

Fedora never shows white boxes... must be something gentoo specific. Do you use some splash screen or bootsplash or special boot loader splash?

Comment 8 Sebastian Pipping 2011-03-25 14:12:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Fedora never shows white boxes... must be something gentoo specific.

I tried with vanilla 3.6.38, too - same problem.

Comment 9 Jeremiah 2011-06-20 19:08:56 UTC
I have the same issue with Fedora 15

Comment 10 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-10-20 16:18:55 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.