Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145673
Fedora 3 install: Kernel crashes around start of RPM transaction
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:56 EST
Description of problem: When trying to install Fedora 3 on a Dual processor SMP system using Raid SCSI disks the kernel panics around the "Starting RPM Transaction" stage. This system had been running fine with Fedora 2. Other single processor IDE disk based systems have been installed fine with this. I was re-installing from scratch onto "/" using a CDROM boot and local network install. The disks where set up as a number of raid1 partitions: / /dev/md1 (/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1) swap /dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2 /home /dev/md5 (/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb5) /src /dev/md6 (/dev/sda6,/dev/sdb6) /scratch /dev/md7 (/dev/sda7,/dev/sdb7) /dist /dev/md8 (/dev/sda8,/dev/sdb8) /usr/beam /dev/md9 (/dev/sda9,/dev/sdb9) I set the install to mkfs / but leave the other partitions alone. All went fine until the install stage where the system is setting up the RPM transaction where the kernel would panic. Within the kernel panic backtrace there were mentions of: journal_alloc_journal_head I retried a number of times and even tried creating new boot CD's containing the 2.6.9-1.724_FC3.i586 kernel and even the 2.6.8-1.521.i586 kernel I was using with Fedora 2 all with the same crash. I managed to get the system to eventually install by: 1. Adding the option "noselinux" at the CDROM isolinux boot prompt. 2. Only adding the "/" /dev/md1 partition in the Disk-druid fdisk program so that the other raid partitions were ignored. I don't know which of the above cured the problem, but this may be of use to someone. I am not happy about the stability of this system, this kernel panic could re-occur .... Terry My System is: Motherboard: Supermicro X5DA8 Processors: 2.4GHz Xeon Ram: 1GByte SCSI: Onboard Adaptec AIC-7902 Dual Channel SCSI controller SCSIDisks: Two Seagate ST3146807LW 147GByte SCSI drives SoftwareIs: Fedora 3 updated to 13/1/05 DiskSetup: Raid1 partitions Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every boot Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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.
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.