Bug 133106 - installer pauses when mounting CD
Summary: installer pauses when mounting CD
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-21 18:35 UTC by Florin Andrei
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-10-03 01:22:42 UTC
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Description Florin Andrei 2004-09-21 18:35:54 UTC
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Description of problem:
I'm installing FC3 test 2 on a Dell Latitude CPi laptop (pretty old).
When the installer says "loading /sbin/loader" there's a huge pause,
the system appears to be blocked, only the IDE LED is lighted up solid.
Upon inspecting the other console screens, i noticed that the messages
printed out at that time include things like:

ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: status error: error=0x00
hdc: drive not ready for command

Then the sequence is repeated, then:

hdc: ATAPI reset complete

After that it's fine. The CD-ROM works ok, i can complete the install,
etc.

This is not just an FC3 issue, most of the recent Red Hat distros have
issues with the CD-ROM on that machine. It typically works, except
there are those weird messages printed out.
I think i've seen those issues even when playing with Knoppix.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
i don't know

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  see above

Expected Results:  CD-ROM should work fine.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-07-15 19:19:18 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.

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2005-10-03 01:22:42 UTC
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update.
It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005.
If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug.

There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only
way to purge them.

Thank you.


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