Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140078
Installation is very ... very long
Last modified: 2013-03-06 00:58:01 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 Description of problem: After installing RHEL4 beta2 (5 CDs for x86 and 4 CDs for Itanium), a reboot was proposed. Kernel version was 2.6.9-1.648. Then system seemed to hang (2 or 3 minutes) after "Red Hat nash ..." Moreover, later on, a mouse pointer did appear on a blank screen without any possible action on keyboard (4 minutes wait on NS4040=Itanium2=IA64). We don't mention here error on firstboot.py (BZ #135833). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.648 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. To install RHEL4-beta2 on any platforms Actual Results: Systems seem to hang several times but you just need to know that you'll have to wait several minutes ... Expected Results: We could expect to not have a blank screen with a mouse pointer but something letting people know that there is pending/remaining activities (or timeout ?). Additional info: "Hang-like waiting" may vary a little bit from one machine to another. It may be linked to machine not able to access RHN ? Not sure ... but multiple network timeouts may explain such behaviour ? Anyway, messages should warn final customers.
can you remove the 'quiet' boot parameter, and see if there are any kernel messages during the 'pause' ? the 'blank screen with a mouse pointer' sounds suspicious, this sounds to me like you're in X, so this is possibly not a kernel problem, but something in userspace thats broken. Can you ctrl-alt-f1 and see if you can diagnose whats going on if thats the case ?
We'll try a new installation with recommended boot parameters and we'll let you know. I apologize to not have answered sooner but I didn't get notification of your comment, or I missed it ? I just added my E-mail address in the "CC" to be sure I'll get further comments.
Was this still a problem with the final release ? Any debug output as requested in comment #1 would be useful if so.
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