Bug 842385

Summary:

[ath5k] unable to install FC17

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

linuxlambe

Component:

kernel

Assignee:

John Greene <jogreene>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>

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high

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collura, danw, dcbw, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jklimes, jonathan, kernel-maint, linuxcub, madhu.chinakonda, psimerda

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2013-08-01 01:24:40 UTC

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Description linuxlambe 2012-07-23 16:39:38 UTC

Description of problem:
Unable to install FC 17 using liveCD, preupgrade, or commercially available DVD.  Error message during install is:
net rate limit: 361 call backs suppressed
ath5k phy0: too many interrupts, giving up for now

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC-17

How reproducible:
always, using preupgrade, liveCD or DVD

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select Beefy Miracle or
2.insert liveCD or
3.turn on computer with DVD loaded
  
Actual results:
error message listed above = "ath5k phy0: too many interrupts, giving up for now" repeats multiple times, then line "net_rate limit: 361 call backs suppressed" is listed, then "ath5k phy0: too many interrupts, giving up for now" multiple times etc

Expected results:
Successful install

Additional info:IBM Thinkpad G40 Pentium 4, 2.8GHz, Atheros AR5211, driver:ath5k.  Dual boot system with Windows XP and FC16, kernel 3.1.9-1  Have not been able to use FC16 kernels past 3.1.9-1 due to similar issue with Network Manager/ath5k

Comment 1 Dan Winship 2012-07-26 18:03:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Have not been able to use FC16 kernels past 3.1.9-1 due to similar issue
> with Network Manager/ath5k

do you have reason to believe that this is specific to using NetworkManager? It seems more likely to just be a kernel driver bug.

Comment 2 Jirka Klimes 2012-07-27 07:12:45 UTC

Would you grab 'dmesg' output and /var/log/messages?

Comment 3 linuxlambe 2012-08-01 20:59:20 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Would you grab 'dmesg' output and /var/log/messages?
I have not been able to figure out how to obtain the dmesg output for the installation process.  The FC17 install process freezes. When I stop the install process by using the power on/off button, and then restart the laptop with FC16, there are no var/log/messages that refer to the FC17 installation and the output from dmesg is the FC16 bootup, not the FC17 installation.  Is there a way to record the FC17 installation log even when the system freezes up?  Thank you for your help.

Comment 4 linuxlambe 2012-08-13 14:09:42 UTC

Created attachment 915482 [details]
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Comment 5 Jirka Klimes 2012-09-06 07:51:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Would you grab 'dmesg' output and /var/log/messages?
> I have not been able to figure out how to obtain the dmesg output for the
> installation process.  The FC17 install process freezes. When I stop the
> install process by using the power on/off button, and then restart the
> laptop with FC16, there are no var/log/messages that refer to the FC17
> installation and the output from dmesg is the FC16 bootup, not the FC17
> installation.  Is there a way to record the FC17 installation log even when
> the system freezes up?  Thank you for your help.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Logging for Anaconda logging information and especially the bottom of the page on copying the logs.

Would you get output of
lspci -vvnn

But it really seems that ath5k driver causes problems. Try blacklisting it.
Reassigning to kernel as the guys can provide better analysis/help.

Comment 6 linuxlambe 2012-09-07 02:54:41 UTC

Thank you for your assistance, using FC16 3.1.9-1.fc16.i686.PAE is the following:
[jim@thinkpad ~]$ lspci -vvnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3580] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:054a]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Region 0: Memory at <unassigned> (32-bit, prefetchable)
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3584] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:054b]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0

00:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3585] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:054c]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0543]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
	Region 2: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0543]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Region 1: Memory at d0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: i915

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0547]
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 4: I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0547]
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
	Region 4: I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0547]
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11
	Region 4: I/O ports at 1860 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0548]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=168
	I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00006fff
	Memory behind bridge: d0200000-dfffffff
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff
	Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
		PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 01)
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0547]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
	Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
	Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
	Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
	Region 4: I/O ports at 1810 [size=16]
	Region 5: Memory at 40000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0547]
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
	Region 4: I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0542]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
	Region 1: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
	Region 2: Memory at d0100c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
	Region 3: Memory at d0100800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_intel8x0
	Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0

00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0544]
	Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
	Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_intel8x0m
	Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0m

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5901 100Base-TX [14e4:170d] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad R40e [1014:0545]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 64 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: tg3
	Kernel modules: tg3

02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac50] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:054e]
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 168, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
	Memory window 0: f0000000-f3fff000 (prefetchable)
	Memory window 1: d8000000-dbfff000
	I/O window 0: 00003400-000034ff
	I/O window 1: 00003000-000030ff
	BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+
	16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
	Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
	Kernel modules: yenta_socket

02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC [168c:0012] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Phillips Components Device [17ab:8310]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at d0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ath5k
	Kernel modules: ath5k

Comment 7 linuxlambe 2012-09-13 00:09:45 UTC

Blacklisting the Atheros module allowed the FC17 installation to complete successfully.  I modified the installation instructions by editing-adding modprobe.blacklist=ath5k

Thank you Jirka Klimes for pointing me in the correct direction.

Comment 8 Justin M. Forbes 2012-09-13 18:19:23 UTC

Is the system working now with wireless not blacklisted?

Comment 9 linuxlambe 2012-09-13 19:43:22 UTC

The system will only boot FC17 when the statement: modprobe.blacklist=ath5k is added by editing the Grub boot instructions.  When the statement is not added, the system stalls and does not complete the boot up.

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