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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: The rhgb will get to the point where it is starting the network (sending out DHCP on eth0 and eth1) It will drop into detailed mode, while waiting for eth1 to come up. And then it will drop into a text console that says " Press 'I' to enter interactive startup." "Starting udev: [ OK ]" [...] "Enabling swap space: [ OK ]" ... basically it's the original text console. If you press Alt-F8 you can get back into rhgb, or if you wait a few minutes it will go back into rhgb automatically. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhgb-0.13.5-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installed Prism54 firmware (isl3890) into /lib/firmware. 2. Inserted Netgear Prism54 PCMCIA card. 3. Rebooted, card detected by Kudzu. Interface it set to use DHCP, but there's not WEP key entered yet so this will always fail (not a problem). 4. Continue booting normally. 5. Shutdown normally. 6. Reboot 7. Above problem occurs on boot. (last 5 out of 5 boots) Actual Results: rhgb drops into the text console while waiting for dhclient to timeout. Expected Results: Probabilly not dropped out of X, er rhgb. The long wait for DHCP will be confusing to users enough as it is, but this will just make people think that something broke badly. Additional info: The Prism54 card works fine when setup manually with iwconfig. I suspect that the automatic firmware loader isn't running yet at this point in the startup because I see SIOSCIFFLAGS errors and the green LED on the Prism54 card never turns on (which it does only when the firmware is loaded (and it's not in monitor mode)) Unplugging eth0 so that it fails to start (get a DHCP lease) does NOT cause this same problem.
Any erorr messages in the rhgb log, or kernel errors?
The boot process is stuck, the fact that rhgb switches back to console mode doesn't sounds an rhgb bug from my point of view that's what I expect it to do. The problem is that the boot process get stuck for more than 30 seconds, Daniel
Why would we expect rhgb to drop to console mode on VT1? This looks like 144359 which is quite possible to run into. Simply let kudzu detect your network card, get to the point where it wants IP/GATEWAY/DNS go down the hall to ask you local network admin what those should be, come back, see that you are now on some text login screen with no way to configure your network card because you don't know to hit cntrl-alt-f8 to get back to the kudzu screen. My question is why does a ~30 second pause cause the rhgb to switch virtual terminals?
Hi Eric, Yea, it seems rather broken to switch after 35 seconds...I'll look into it.
This should be fixed in tomorrow's rawhide.