From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041009 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I have access to a server that locks hard (PS2 keyboard stops responding, prompt never returns, boot gets no further) when USB2 is enabled on FC3 (there were no lockups with FC1). I finally traced this down to being some sort of interaction between udev and USB2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.766 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the kernel with init=/bin/sh 2. mount -n -t proc /proc /proc 3. mount -n -t sysfs /sys /sys 4. /sbin/start_udev 5. /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd Actual Results: The machine will hang and not get any further nor will it respond to a ctrl-alt-del or sysrq commands. Expected Results: Boot to continue normally. Additional info: Modprobing uhci-hcd before starting udev causes the problem to disappear as does disabling USB2 (but leaving USB1 on) in the BIOS. Kernels tested are kernel-2.6.9-1.667 and kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3. lspci prints the following: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06) 00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) 00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt849A Video capture (rev 12) Might be related to bug #138916 or bug #143779
Further to Harald's comment on the mailing list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-February/msg00957.html ) I added set -x after the comments at the top of /sbin/start_udev . The script ran fine and completed in its entirity as it always has making me wonder if I had not clearly stated that the hang happens AFTER /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd and not after/within /sbin/start_udev . However /sbin/start_udev is clearly causing something to happen within the kernel which changes it's behaviour when the USB hub is enumerated. I tried booting with the usual assortment of cmdline options but none of the following helped: noacpi noapic nolapic pci=noapic (this was mentioned bug #138916 but caused to kernel to moan that noapic was not an understood parameter to pci) pci=routeirq nousb DID work but obviously usb was disabled in its entirity.
I will alos note that no USB devices are plugged into the machine during boot and plugging in a USB keyboard does not change the outcome.
well, maybe it interferes with another module, that was loaded by start_udev/hotplug events... maybe the output of /sbin/lsmod just before the "/sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd" shows some differences?
I had someone test this out and apparently there is no difference in the modules loaded. The word baffling springs to mind.
This could well be a dup of bug #138523
May also be related to bug #154650
Still here with 2.6.11-1.27_FC3
I tried testing with a the following as /sbin/modprobe: #!/bin/bash echo $@ sleep 1 /sbin/modprobe.real $@ But there was no real difference. After doing step 5. uhci-hcd was printed and then the prompt returned for a second or two before the computer locked solid.
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.
The server isn't likely to go to FC4 (more likely it will go to FC5 when it is out). I *will* update this bug but I'm writing this comment so that people know this isn't a hit and run.
Still here in 2.6.12-1.1380_FC3 and the old workaround of starting /sbin/start_udev after the modprobe no longer works (i.e. loading the module seems to be the killer).
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This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.
I'm going to reopen this because the server that is running FC3 is finally going to be retired from serving duty and will finally be available for upgrading to FC5. It's worth noting that the final few FC3 kernels seem to have caused massive problems under load with random lockups and other nastys surfacing...
[This comment added as part of a mass-update to all open FC4 kernel bugs] FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue to release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not security related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been migrated to FC5. Please retest with Fedora Core 5. Thank you.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
OK I finally had a chance to test this with FC6. At first the results were the same (lockup when that module was loaded and USB2 was enabled in the BIOS). However on a whim I decided to change the Plug and Play OS option in the BIOS from No to Yes and this problem along with a lockup when using the s3virge video driver disappeared. Too weird. Resolving NOTABUG.