Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114299
Segfault in /sbin/loader
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
Description of problem: Trying to install FC2-re0123.1 on a Dell Inspiron 3500 with 'ks vnc' or 'ks text' gives this: running /sbin/loader install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
Also happens with rawhide-20040126.
Still happens in FC2-re0126.0 (anaconda 9.90-2).
It's happenening in probeDevices.
In fact it's happening inside strdup. :-( Removing all device entries in /etc/pcmcia/config except for the Xircom CE3 network card it needs to install from gets it past the segfault.
Can you attach the /etc/pcmcia/config?
It's the one from the boot.iso initrd. Or do you mean the edited-down one? I found that it still crashes if I remove all but one of the (for me) unneeded entries, it just crashes in a different place.
Whatever one makes it crash. :)
It crashes without any modifications from the initrd in boot.iso.
OK, running kudzu -p -b pcmcia doesn't segfault for me, and neither does a test program linked against the diet stack.
How about with a PCMCIA network device plugged in? If I pull mine out it doesn't segfault, but I can't get much further in the install that way. ;-)
16-bit pcmcia, I'm assuming. Damn, should have waited to read this before going home without one. :)
It's this one: $ grep CE3 /etc/pcmcia/config card "Xircom CE3-10/100 Fast Ethernet" version "Xircom", "*", "CE3-10/100"
Still happens with rawhide-20040210.
Apparently also happens with an Intel Pro 10/100 pcmcia network card.
Yeah, probably happens with anything PCMCIA. Only happens in the loader, could be diet related.
On my Dell Inspiron 4150 with a builtin/internal PCMCIA wireless nic as soon as I choose "English" I get a sig 11. Is this the same bug?
Very possibly.
FYI - tried to do a clean install of FC2T1 on my Gateway M500 laptop however when the installation got to the point where it runs '/sbin/loader' a signal 11 error was produced. I then tried to install again using 'linux apm=off acpi=off pci=noacpi' with the same results.
It also happens on a Dell C640, but not a Dell D600. However this isn't after "Choose English," but rather right after mediacheck -- regardless of if the mediacheck is done or skipped, the next thing you get is a signal 11.
*** Bug 115956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Differences between the symptons I've observed and those in this bug and in 115956: - this bug says problem happens with "ks text" or "ks vnc" I observe this happening all the time, regardless of boot options - 115956 reports this happens after "probing USB devices." I observe it happens right after the end of mediacheck.
Bug #115605 seems to be a duplicate of this bug. I have the same symptoms on my Dell Inspiron 8200. It occurs directly after the media check screen on an installation cd bootup and directly after the language selection on the boot.iso
Aaron: This happens for me without 'ks' too, the same as you. The nature of this bug is that at some stage, yet unknown, the heap is upset -- this is the bug. Then at a later time, the symptom (segfault) is seen. It could be a memory scribble, or it could be an incorrectly-freed object. But whatever it is occurs some time before the segfault happens. (Just by adding some printfs to the code I was able to make the segfault happen in an entirely different place.)
*** Bug 115605 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seing the same thing as mentioned in comment #16 - when booting Dell Lattitude C640 (with builtin PCMCIA NIC) from the PXEboot vmlinuz/initrd (from Feb 17th Raw Hide), I get the "signal 11" message right after I select the language (does not matter whather I select "English" or "Russian"). P.S. I am bumping the severity level since this bug makes it impossible to install.
Re: comment #25 If I boot with the "nopcmcia" option, it does not crash (but then network does not work :-( ).
Using noprobe lets you continue with the install. I had to setup the network card later, but it worked.
With the "noprobe" option I arrive at the following screen: > You have multiple network devices on this system. > Which would you like to install through? > > eth - 3Com Corporation|3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] > eth - Intersil PRISM2 11 Mbps Wireless Adepter Note that there is no number after either "eth"! (BTW, is this a separate bug, or another manifistation of this one?) Selecting either of the two results in "* pump told us: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device" being printed on the 3rd v.console and it still does not work :-(
I tried linking an /sbin/loader with glibc rather than dietlibc, and getting its main() to setenv("MALLOC_CHECK_","1",1) first thing. No change at all. I'd been hoping for a diagnostic message from malloc().
Yes, when I tested, it only seems to happen in conjunction with diet.
Created attachment 98048 [details] mtrace patch FWIW (probably not much), I tried using mtrace() to investigate this problem further. The resulting trace didn't say much interesting. But /sbin/loader crashes much much earlier with this patch -- 'looking for usb controllers' is the last message on VT3.
Fixed in CVS.
Running Dell inspiron 8100, had same error, looked at cnt+alt+4 and saw that it was trying to load the wireless drivers for my orinoco wifi card. removed card from pcmcia, and installer moves past and starts graphical install.
Simeon: er, which version? This has been fixed for a while. I also have one of these cards and it works fine for me with current rawhide. Probably something that will be fixed in test 2.
Same problem with FC3 test2 (FC3-test2-i386-DVD.iso). I do not have the problem with FC2, so I don't know if this is exactly the same as above. The system prints out: running /sbin/loader install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 I tried some combinations of noprobe, nopcmcia, nousbstorage, but cannot get it to install. Removing pcmcia cards does not help either. Install is from a hard drive, and the md5sum checks good, so I don't think it's a media issue. System is a Dell Latitude CS laptop. Let me know if you want additional tests/info.
Please ignore the last comment (additional comment #35). While the symptoms were the same, the actual cause was code added after the previous comment (#34) date. The new bug is fixed and identified as bug #133996.
I have a problem with this bug. I am not trying to install the "test" version. and useing CDs instead of DVD. I have tried noprobe and nopcmcia with no luck. What happens is, I get select lang, then keyboard. fine so far. Then it is select install location. I select "local CDROM" (I should point out that this I get this far if I wait for about 2 minutes on the "running /sbin/loader" hangup). after selecting that I get a blue screen, see some text fly by and Call Trace: is where it would "seem" the problem is. This is what I see. [<c030007b>] xfrm_state_lookup+0xea/0x151 Code: 00 00 89 44 24 04 b8 02 00 00 00 e8 d1 19 00 00 58 8b 04 24 85 c0 74 05 e8 7b fc ff ff 58 c3 ff 75 24 04 e8 7c ff ff ff 89 c2 58 <8b> 02 a8 01 75 09 89 d0 e8 a7 fd ff ff 89 c2 89 d0 c3 53 31 db install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 I should point out that [<c030007b>] is not the first line I see on Call Trace: there is about 12 before it. And I am trying to install on a Dell CPi
Mass-closing lots of old bugs which are in MODIFIED (and thus presumed to be fixed). If any of these are still a problem, please reopen or file a new bug against the release which they're occurring in so they can be properly tracked.