Bug 772958

Summary: Freeze when editing LVM2 volume in anaconda installer
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Levart <peter.levart>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 16CC: dennis, gansalmon, g.kaviyarasu, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Peter Levart 2012-01-10 14:04:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

Fedora 16 freezes (OS freeze - mouse cursor not moving - not responding) when trying to edit a LVM2 volume on an existent IDE disk (with F15 installed on it) from the "Install To Disk" application booted from F16 Live USB key.

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

Fedora 16 Live KDE, 64 bit x86_64

How reproducible:

Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from USB key with Fedora 16 Live KDE spin, 64 bit x86_64.
2. start "Install to Disk" application and choose "Manual disk Layout"
3. try to edit existing LVM2 volume (to change mount point/format options)
  
Actual results:

When clicking on "Edit" button, system freezes (mouse cursor doesn't move - have to power-off/on)

Expected results:

Normal operation and installation to disk.

Additional info:

I suspected AHCI controler and changed it to IDE mode (in BIOS). Old Fedora 15 still works, but LVM2 volume editing on F16 still freezes.

Following is my machine's smolt report when booted from F15...

General
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UUID: 8f3a5154-86df-4277-b2e4-12a393199ed9
OS: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
Default run level: Unknown
Language: en_US.UTF-8
Platform: x86_64
BogoMIPS: 5852.76
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU         530  @ 2.93GHz
CPU Stepping: 2
CPU Family: 6
CPU Model Num: 37
Number of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2926
System Memory: 7851
System Swap: 8191
Vendor: LENOVO
System: 5474W13 ThinkCentre M90
Form factor: Desktop
Kernel: 2.6.41.4-1.fc15.x86_64
SELinux Enabled: 1
SELinux Policy: targeted
SELinux Enforce: Enforcing
MythTV Remote: Unknown
MythTV Role: Unknown
MythTV Theme: Unknown
MythTV Plugin: 
MythTV Tuner: -1



Devices
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(32902:11521:32902:32902) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder
(32902:11537:32902:32902) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor QPI Physical 0
(32902:11538:32902:32902) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor Reserved
(32902:11539:32902:32902) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor Reserved
(32902:15152:6058:12371) pci, i801_smbus, SERIAL, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
(32902:15138:6058:12371) pci, ahci, STORAGE, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
(32902:15114:6058:12371) pci, None, PCI/ISA, 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller
(32902:15190:6058:12371) pci, snd_hda_intel, MULTIMEDIA, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
(32902:4335:6058:12371) pci, e1000e, ETHERNET, 82578DM Gigabit Network Connection
(32902:15164:6058:12371) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
(32902:9294:6058:12371) pci, None, PCI/PCI, 82801 PCI Bridge
(32902:11361:32902:32902) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers
(4318:248:4318:667) pci, nvidia, VIDEO, NV45GL [Quadro FX 3400/4400]
(32902:15207:6058:12371) pci, serial, 16550_SERIAL, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset KT Controller
(32902:15156:6058:12371) pci, ehci_hcd, USB, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
(32902:64:6058:12371) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor DRAM Controller
(32902:15204:6058:12371) pci, None, SIMPLE, 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller
(32902:11536:32902:32902) pci, None, HOST/PCI, Core Processor QPI Link 0
(32902:65:6058:12371) pci, pcieport, PCI/PCI, Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port

Filesystem Information
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device mtpt type bsize frsize blocks bfree bavail file ffree favail
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/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_root_f15 / ext4 4096 4096 2580302 1312549 1286341 655360 496305 496305
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 1024 1024 198337 126009 115769 51200 51108 51108
/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_root_f14 WITHHELD ext4 4096 4096 2580302 1441307 1415101 655360 516184 516184
/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_data WITHHELD ext4 4096 4096 69639698 47768893 44231383 17694720 16165446 16165446
/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_data /home ext4 4096 4096 69639698 47768893 44231383 17694720 16165446 16165446
/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_root_f15 /tmp ext4 4096 4096 2580302 1312549 1286341 655360 496305 496305
/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_root_f15 /var/tmp ext4 4096 4096 2580302 1312549 1286341 655360 496305 496305
/dev/mapper/vg_peterl-lv_data /home ext4 4096 4096 69639698 47768893 44231383 17694720 16165446 16165446
Comment 1 Peter Levart 2012-01-10 14:43:02 UTC 
How can I provide additional insight? Should I attach to kernel somehow to see what is the cause of freeze? How?
Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-03-01 17:42:00 UTC 
We aren't going to be able to fix the F16 install/livecd images at this point.  Do you have the same problem with the F17 Alpha images?
Comment 3 Peter Levart 2012-03-01 19:44:56 UTC 
Unfortunately I just got new machine this week and had to return the old one (which exhibited this behavior) today. I'm afraid the contents of that disk are already gone by now (will ask tomorrow morning and let you know). I haven't been able to establish the cause of the freeze by now.
Comment 4 Dave Jones 2012-03-22 16:38:39 UTC 
[mass update]
kernel-3.3.0-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.
Please retest with this update.
Comment 5 Dave Jones 2012-03-22 16:43:49 UTC 
[mass update]
kernel-3.3.0-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.
Please retest with this update.
Comment 6 Dave Jones 2012-03-22 16:51:47 UTC 
[mass update]
kernel-3.3.0-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.
Please retest with this update.
Comment 7 Peter Levart 2012-03-22 19:51:18 UTC 
Unfortunately I have no means to test this any more. The disk that exhibited this behavior has been erased. I can't reproduce the problem.