Bug 129097 - With kudzu-1.1.75-1 a guaranteed hangup on reboot
Summary: With kudzu-1.1.75-1 a guaranteed hangup on reboot
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-03 23:58 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-16 17:04:55 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2004-08-03 23:58:51 UTC
Description of problem:

On a cold boot kudzu does not create problems but I will
try to reboot then this invariably hangs in kudzu.  A machine
is dead to that extent that even trying sysrq key, which I
am turning on in a modified kudzu startup script, does not have
any effects.  Configuring it "SAFE" also has no effect.
It trying a manual run after after a reboot with kudzu service
turned off then one can see '/usr/sbin/kudzu -s -t 30' on
a screen nothing happens after that.

This was happening before often enough to be annoying but
now it is certain.

As a matter of fact the real culprit can be USB because
re-booting with 'nousb' in kernel parameters makes this hang
to go away. OTOH this makes USB clearly inaccessible.

Hardware: Tyan Tiger MP with 2 Athlon MP 1700+ processors.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-08-04 05:01:12 UTC
I'm guessing this is a warm kernel reboot problem; there are other
reports of this.

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2004-08-05 20:11:34 UTC
I am inclined right now to put that to "USB handling on this mobo"
bug.  This motherboard is known to have problems with USB and, as
a result of testing, some new OHCI Root Hub was added recently.
It could be too that kernel is not handling properly some weird USB
behaviour.  I cannot be sure.  If I will skip kudzu and will leave
"nousb" out of the picture then I will boot fine into level 3 but
then X will hang that machine without any traces anywhere.  Things are
usually fine from a cold boot even if kudzu will get stuck there too
on some infrequent occasions.

Hard for me to say anything about "other reports" Bill mentioned.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-12-08 06:48:25 UTC
any better with the current updates ?

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2004-12-09 00:37:05 UTC
> any better with the current updates ?

With 2.6.9-1.1020_FC4 turning on kudzu while 'nousb' was omitted
from boot parameters still kills my test box with an absolute
perfection.

But there is some progress.  Namely if I will leave kudzu out
of the picture then I can start X, which was impossible before,
and even a USB mouse does then work as well as a USB floppy (even
if the later did not mount itself; probably because it showed as
/dev/sda).

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2005-07-15 20:31:31 UTC
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.


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