Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137990
Installer fails to start with USB failure
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:11:29 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: I have a rather-standard-configured Dell OptiFlex GX260 on which I've been happily using Fedora Core 1 for many months. I recently attempted to upgrade to Fedora Core 2, but cannot run the installer. When the kernel boots, The system gets as far as ... running install... running /sbin/loader and then Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c011c77c>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.5-1.358) EIP is at __request_resource+0x24/0x41 More stack trace follows, excerpted below: Call Trace: [<c011ca18>] __request_region+0x56/0x79 [<c021c216>] usb_hcd_pci_probe+0xc6/0x3bd [<c016e078>] create_dir+0x76/0x8d [<c0199196>] pci_device_probe_static+0x2a/0x3d // seveal lines skipped [<c0287147>] syscallo_call+0x7/0xb [<c028007b>] copy_to_user_tmpl+0xe0/0x10f Code: 39 70 04 76 0c 89 43 14 31 c0 89 1a 89 4b 10 eb 08 8d 50 14 <6>USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 The problem appears to have something to do with the USB controller. Note that if, in the BIOS (Rev A08 - I upgraded to the most recent firmware) I disable the USB controller completely, the installation gets farther (I can get to the text-mode media check) but then a few lines of text show up in garbage characters and installation again halts. I tried "linux text", "linux noprobe" to no avail. The media is fine - the media passes a check on a different computer, which also gets further in the installation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC2 from CD on a Dell OptiFlex GX260 (which has USB on the motherboard) Additional info:
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.