Bug 88960

Summary: creating custom boot disk with e1000 module included causes segfault in /sbin/loader
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Peter J. Dohm <dohmp>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Peter J. Dohm 2003-04-15 18:41:31 UTC
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Description of problem:
when including the intel e1000 kernel module in a custom boot disk (i.e. not
using a driver disk, but placing the e1000 driver directly into the modules.cgz
in the initrd, etc), install runs, delegating to /sbin/loader, and loader
crashes immediately with a signal 11 (segmentation fault).

removing the e1000 module from the boot disk resolves the issue.

having an e1000 card physically installed is entirely unnecessary in order to
reproduce this bug.

this methodology works perfectly for any other network card module we have tried
(tg3, 3c59x, etc), only the e1000 seems to cause a problem.

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

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start with the default boot disk
2. place the e1000 kernel module into the modules.cgz inside the initrd
3. update the pcitable, modules.dep, module-info accordingly.
4. boot
5. cry
    

Actual Results:  /sbin/loader crashes with signal 11 (segmentation fault)

Expected Results:  it should work.

Additional info:

description is sufficient.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-04-22 16:13:40 UTC
Did you use spaces or tabs in the module-info file?

Comment 2 Peter J. Dohm 2003-04-22 16:26:17 UTC
all the boot disks i've examined that we've created have tabs, identically the
same formatting to the original module-info text.


Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2003-04-23 02:13:42 UTC
The code all works fine for me here with our disks.  If you put your disk
somewhere that I can pull it down and take a look at it, I'll try to take a look
at it.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2003-06-18 20:47:10 UTC
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add.