Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 29749
[aic7xxx] appears to crash formatting filesystem
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:48 EDT
I am seeing simuar behivaor to bugs 29562,29555, and 29266. I have not atempted to install fisher on the box however I will do this tonight. guinness install with no issues. wolverene will write the partation table and appers to crash when starting to format. I can go back and reinstall guiness with no issues. then if I try an upgrade install the install appers to crash as soon as data is written to the hardrive. Card is a 2930 (retail) cpu is amd k6 II 500 all ide is disabled. seagate 8 gig hd nec cdrom 384 meg ram this is one of my boxes at home I will post the exact error when I get home tonight.
Appears to be a kernel issue.
Changing to NEEDINFO while waiting for exact error info
oops I forgot to use my work account (john.b@redhat.com) here is what I see ont the debug (f4) screen. I was mistaken it was not a kerne oops it was a kernel panic. with the intriupt handler. and a stack dump on the swapper process. crap on a second atempt tonight I got an anaconda trace back error with all pnp disalbled. with PnP re-enabled, I am back to scsi reset and timeout errors.
Arghhh....I need accurate bug reports....now you've reported four different failures in a single bug report without giving specific details for a single one. OK. With the PnP BIOS options enabled (I'm assuming you mean the "OS is PnP" type BIOS settings), you get SCSI resets and timeouts? Or do you get a kernel panic? And what is the panic you get? Or, if it's resets, then does the machine ever even find your hard drives or does it start the reset loop before you even get into disk druid? With PnP BIOS options disabled you get an Anaconda traceback? If so, what's the traceback?
1 all drives are seen at post... and RH7 works fine. ok yes with pnp enabled in bios and "devices controled by = auto" ( at least I think that is what the option said) i get scsi bus reset errors. and eventuly I might get a kernel panic if I change PnPos to no and leave the devices controled by to auto the system appers to go through the timeout cycle once. and the I get the kernel panic with errors in the inturput handler. if I then go back and disable anything remotly resembling PnP including changing the devices controled by to manual. I get the anaconda errors. This happens just as anaconda should either write fiels( on an upgrade) or format the first partition. DiskDruid and fdisk will read the partition and do not apper to cause any scsi bus issues. on a format the problems occure when writting the first inode to partition /dev/sda1 if I switch to an install dependecys are resolved and the crash occurs when writting the first package to disk. here is the general layout of the partitionioning on the drive. /dev/sda1 /boot ~20 meg /dev/sda2 /var/local ~2 gig /dev/sda5 [swap] ~128 meg /dev/sda6 / ~6 gig hope that helps... I will atach the traceback from anaconda.
Created attachment 11560 [details] Traceback pump from anaconda for python debugging
Can you "ls -l /mnt/sysimage" after it crashes and tell me what you get?
I will try that whe I get home tonight... however normal the system is total locked and I get no response from my keyboard. But I will see what happens.
How did you capture that trace if the screen is locked?
system did not lock with all pnp disabled. with all PmP enabled as mentioned earler the system again had a kernel panic On the first reboot after disabling PnP Anaconda starts and exits with a signal 7. for some starange reasion /mnt/sysimage is missing and manualy adding /mnt/syssimage dose nothing
I'm try to install RH7.1 in to my IBM PC Server 330 PII 128Mb ram, it have an IBM ServeRAID AIC7880 based, and at format swap partition the system hang. I've try to reinstall it and I've increment the swap partition size (512Mb) and the install can format the swap partition, but when the system install the rpms package the system report a bad reading error or bad media error. I've look the system status and the result is some I/O errors and the cd-rom is unmounted. I now have reinstall my RH7.0 and work very fine...
At the end of the GUI install, the bar displaying post install configuration comes to rest at the end but the system does not reboot. Cycling the box w/the power on/off button is a very ungraceful way to force an e2fsck on a brand new system ;) Aside from that, it all looks good, except that the prompt is reporting 2.4.2- 2smp for the Kernal version. I installed the SMP package, but haven't tweaked LILO yet. Do I still need to modify /etc/lilo.conf and set the defaul to: linux- smp? Thanks, Bradley D. Thornton. http://www.PacificRoot.com
I have similar problem to palluk@libero.it. Adaptec AIC-7890 and two Ultra2 SCSI disks, IBM 4Gb + Seagate 8 Gb. Installing 7.1 with autoformat of partitions and formats partitions OK (/, /boot, /usr, /var) but fails when "formatting swap space". On the install log, the last two messages are: * Detected 192M of memory & * Swap attempt of 192M to 384M. Ctl-alt-F4 gives me a screen full of message pairs: <6> Device 0b:00 not ready <4> I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1166792 (but this sector address is different each time). However, other partitions are OK - why should the swap space be the only one on the bad disk? Also, I heard that swap space greater than 256Mb gives problems. Could it be that?
I'm closing this bug out. John, if the problem still exists in the current release, then open a new bug report. To the other posters, your problems aren't related to this bug, please open a different bug report if your problems aren't resolved.