Bug 751741

Summary: Virt-install F16 PV guest in text mode hangs attempting to start Anaconda
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: berrange, drjones, ezyang, jforbes, jonathan, kraxel, m.a.young, mrezanin, vanmeeuwen+fedora, virt-maint, xen-maint
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Description Boris Derzhavets 2011-11-07 12:15:02 UTC
Created attachment 532030 [details]
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Description of problem:

Virt-install F16 PV guest in text mode hangs attempting to start Anaconda

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

16

How reproducible:

Run virt-install with --nographics mode

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Booting installer hangs

Expected results:

Text mode install

Additional info:

Comment 1 Andrew Jones 2011-11-07 14:31:58 UTC
Try adding 'serial text' to the kernel command line with the virt-install '-x' command line option.

Comment 2 Michael Young 2011-11-07 14:50:52 UTC
I have seen this as well using xl, and adding serial text doesn't help. If you have a graphical window open I think there is a mini trace back in it. I will post it when I get a chance to reproduce it.

Comment 3 Boris Derzhavets 2011-11-07 16:00:13 UTC
virt-install -n VF16T -p -x --nographics  -r 2048 -f /dev/sda7 -l http://192.168.0.102/f16 --debug

brings up VNC window , that is not supposed to happen.

Comment 4 Michael Young 2011-11-07 19:19:05 UTC
The back trace you get in the graphical window with "serial text" is
Starting Anaconda version 16.25.
loader received SIGSEGV!  Backtrace:
/bin/loader[0x42261e]
/bin/loader[0x40967a]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7fb05bbce69d]
/sbin/loader[0x40b799]

However I have also found that booting with "serial text console=hvc0" does work.

Comment 5 Edward Z. Yang 2011-11-26 08:59:03 UTC
Also can confirm adding "serial text console=hvc0" works.

Comment 6 Miroslav Rezanina 2012-01-09 08:25:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 742896 ***