Bug 186273 - Display corrupted when hypervisor boots
Summary: Display corrupted when hypervisor boots
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel-xen
Version: 7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eduardo Habkost
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks: 179629
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-22 17:14 UTC by Robin Green
Modified: 2009-12-14 20:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 01:12:09 UTC
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XenSource 969 0 None None None Never

Description Robin Green 2006-03-22 17:14:26 UTC
Description of problem:  
When booting into xen from grub, the display is completely corrupted. 
Workaround is to add console=com1 to the xen command line. 
  
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  
xen-3.0.1-4 
  
How reproducible:  
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce:  
1. Boot with the default grub options that anaconda puts there, namely: 
root (hd0,0) 
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5xen0 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 
rhgb quiet 
        module /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5xen0.img 
    
Actual results:  
Display corrupted, until rhgb starts, at which point it returns to normal.  
  
Expected results:  
No corruption 
  
Additional info: 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon 
X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) 
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0402

Comment 1 Robin Green 2006-08-08 18:40:42 UTC
Bug still present in FC6t2.

Comment 2 Brian Stein 2006-08-08 19:12:40 UTC
Please post the kernel/xen versions installed (or confirm this is a fresh FC6t2
install).  Thanks.

Comment 3 Robin Green 2006-08-09 11:55:36 UTC
This is a fresh FC6t2 install.

Comment 4 Robin Green 2006-11-11 14:24:09 UTC
Bug still present in FC6.

Applicable versions:
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
xen-3.0.3-0.1.rc3


Comment 5 Nick Pavlica 2006-11-22 00:56:39 UTC
I'm also getting video corruption when I boot the XEN kernel in FC6 with all
patches as of 11/21/06.  There is no corruption with the use of the other kernels.

HW Profile:
 -Dell Dimension 4600
 -Radeon 9800
 -512Mb RAM
 -2.4Ghz P4 with HT

Working Kernel:
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST
2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Comment 6 Nick Pavlica 2006-11-29 17:03:09 UTC
I removed the Radeon 9800, and just used the onboard Intel 865G video card, and
the  corruption was fixed.  However, there was a reduction in video performance.

Comment 7 Robin Green 2007-04-18 21:42:28 UTC
Bug still present in F7test3.

Filed upstream.

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-07-24 23:34:59 UTC
change QA contact

Comment 9 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-24 23:18:48 UTC
This was mis-categoized as a userspace bug, changing to kernel-xen instead. Also
switching to F7 on basis of comment #7.

Comment 10 Russell Doty 2008-04-11 15:44:30 UTC
Can this bug be reproduced in F9? If not, let's close it.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:00:12 UTC
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Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:12:07 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
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