Bug 723849

Summary: installation: kernel panic in EFI during restart of installer
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski>
Component: kernelAssignee: John Feeney <jfeeney>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Botu Sun <bosun>
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Version: 6.1CC: arozansk, kzhang, the.ridikulus.rat
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-177.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-07-21 11:31:32 UTC
Description of problem:
Kernel panic shows up and the system hangs if one press CTRL-ALT-Del during the instalation in EFI environment.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.1 RC3/GA

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup BIOS to EFI
2. start installation from CD
3. when installer is loading press CTRL-ALT-Del in order to reboot
  
Actual results:
system hangs up and kernel panic appears

Expected results:
system is rebooted

Additional info:

Comment 1 Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-07-21 11:36:17 UTC
Created attachment 514188 [details]
picture of kernel panic PART1

Comment 2 Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-07-21 11:37:06 UTC
Created attachment 514189 [details]
picture of kernel panic PART2

Comment 4 Matthew Garrett 2011-07-22 14:52:08 UTC
Can you try booting with reboot=a as a kernel parameter?

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2011-07-25 14:00:14 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 6 Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-07-25 15:46:26 UTC
reboot=a causes normal reboot, and panic does not show up.

Comment 9 Aristeu Rozanski 2011-08-04 12:50:07 UTC
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-177.el6

Comment 15 Botu Sun 2011-11-03 05:18:19 UTC
Hello, Intel

I have tried to reproduce this bug on both a IBM x3550 and an Intel SDP system, but failed.

Could I have your tested system model? If we does not have one in house, would you please help us test this patch?

Thanks,
Botu Sun

Comment 16 Zhang Kexin 2011-11-04 06:47:20 UTC
Hi Przemyslaw, please see comment #15, Thanks. It will also be appreciated if you provide test result.

Comment 17 Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-11-04 09:58:51 UTC
Platform I have is a Romley Server, I will try again with the latest bios and I let you know.

Comment 18 Botu Sun 2011-11-08 05:01:41 UTC
Hi, Intel

Any update?

Regards,
Botu Sun

Comment 20 Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-11-14 10:27:23 UTC
Sorry, I was on a leave last week. 
Nothing changed so far and new bios does not resolve problem. Sometimes panic does not occur but machine hangs after "Restarting System" message (ie. in the same place as panic appears).

Comment 22 Botu Sun 2011-11-15 10:10:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #20)
> Sorry, I was on a leave last week. 
> Nothing changed so far and new bios does not resolve problem. Sometimes panic
> does not occur but machine hangs after "Restarting System" message (ie. in the
> same place as panic appears).

Thanks a lot, Przemyslaw.

Could I have the exactly build label that you used to test in Comment 20?

Botu SUn

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 13:53:14 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html