Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 185837
Rawhide network insall crash
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:25:59 EST
Description of problem: The installer crashes after insallation method selection. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Rawhide 19 Mar 2006 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download b63b5223d0467dc6841441b33bddfbf8f2cbbf48 boot.iso from rawhide (19 Mar 2006), burn it and bot it. 2. select language (english) 3. select keyboard (english) 4. select any of the network installation methods: NFS, FTP, HTTP Actual results: the installer crashes Expected results: the installer should configure a network interface and continue fetching stage2 image from the network? Additional info: here's my hardware configuration: AMD x2 4200+ NForce4 (Epox 9NPA+ Ultra)
Created attachment 126322 [details] The backtrace given when the installer dies
Does this work properly with the FC5 release?
I've tried booting from the FC5 final DVD (entered 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt) No, it does not work properly with the FC5 (final). Exactly the same backtrace and error messages appear as described in this thread. p.s. It does works fine with the FC4 DVD (hope this helps)
What are the last lines on tty3 and tty4 when it crashes?
Created attachment 126535 [details] output on tty3 and tty4 I'm attaching the bottom 24 lines from tty3 and tty4 as requested.
Anyways FC5 got released with this problem, now, is there a way to work it around? Are there any kernel arguments I could try at the boot prompt? Waiting for FC6 to get released for me to be able to perform networked installs doesn't sound like a good option ;-)
This looks like the sata_nv driver problem (bug #182326 and bug #186433). Try booting with pci=noacpi and seeing if the install will continue.
the pci=noacpi parameter did not help. with it i get an extra stacktrace when the libata.ko module gets loaded, but it recovers after a while and when i get to the install method screen i get the same stack trace as I did before.
I think I've discovered a workaround for this problem. There is a Terayon cable modem attached to a usb port on that machine. When I unplug the cable modem I never experience the problem and the network installation proceeds fine! Here's the info of the cable modem device taken from /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 5 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=06cc ProdID=0101 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=Terayon Communication Systems S: Product=Terayon DOCSIS USB Cable Modem S: SerialNumber=SN_408340314034_7000549-07.05 C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(comm.) Sub=06 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_ether E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_ether I: If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_ether E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
I'm going to reassign this to the kernel people so they can at least be aware of the issue. USB is always fun.
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.
> Terayon cable modem Since I no longer have access to this hardware I cannot test this with the new FC6 installer. Feel free to close this bug.