Bug 140078 - Installation is very ... very long
Summary: Installation is very ... very long
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Jason Baron
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-19 17:09 UTC by Pierre Fumery
Modified: 2013-03-06 05:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 16:07:43 UTC
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Description Pierre Fumery 2004-11-19 17:09:28 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-11-20 04:58:25 UTC
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 ?


Comment 2 Pierre Fumery 2004-12-01 09:47:48 UTC
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.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-06-27 20:12:33 UTC
Was this still a problem with the final release ? Any debug output as requested
in comment #1 would be useful if so.


Comment 4 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:07:43 UTC
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.


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