Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 128711
(ACPI) FC3T1 installer freezes on network install attempt
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:08:11 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Attempting NFS upgrade of FC2 to FC3T1 in IBM Thinkpad A21p notebook. Installer freezes on first attempt to access network - Determining hostname. Can't change to a VC or reboot. Workaround is to specify acpi=off parameter to the kernel. Given frequent ACPI problems, perhaps this should be the default for intaller kernels. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.0.1-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start anaconda installer 2. Select network install method 3. Actual Results: System freezes. Expected Results: Install should proceed. Additional info: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03) 00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03) 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] (rev 20) 00:03.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem (rev 20) 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) 00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)
Problem persists through FC3T2-candidate2 FC3-re0908.0, but acpi=off no longer helps. See also BZ #131293 - perhaps one or the other should be marked a duplicate.
The problem persists for FC3T2. Booted from installation CD #1 (linux acpi=off askmethod) and attempted a network install. Starts generating errors as soon as network information is entered to the installer.
Same problem for FC3 final. Took a gamble and installed kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (on FC2 system) which required updating to modutils-2.4.26-16. Works OK with acpi=off, unlike any previous FC3 kernels since FC3T1.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
Works in FC4.