Description of problem: Booting kernel with acpi on makes it hang when loading udev. This problem did not occur when I was using Fedora Core 6, but when I upgraded to F7, it did occur - I had to disable acpi when I upgraded, and haven't been able to get it working since. I am not sure if the bug is in the udev, or if it is in the kernel, however, I was using kernel 2.6.22 on fc6 and I did not have this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All released for fedora 7 so far. How reproducible: Booting kernel with kops: irqpoll noapic nlapic on an AMD Turion processor (my smolt profile link is (only the kernel version and the fedora version are incorrect): http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=dfa507cb-371f-465a-9f6e-e809bd35f991) I have also posted a lot of info here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/cant-get-acpi-working- fedora-7-586212/ Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Try booting with these options: pci=nomsi,nommconf highres=off nohz=off That is the default in the Fedora 6 2.6.22 kernel.
(In reply to comment #1) > Try booting with these options: > pci=nomsi,nommconf highres=off nohz=off > That is the default in the Fedora 6 2.6.22 kernel. Tried this and it booted fine. But now the hal daemon doesn't work any more - it just doesn't mount any devices when I plug them in, and when I manually mount a device from the command line, it is writable only be root. I haven't found any error messages from the HAL daemon, but when I shutdown it says that the shutdown of the HAL daemon failed. Also, I now can't see the battery life left on my laptop - the icon in the notification area has disappeared.
Try removing one option at a time. Also see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems
Hello, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if you are still having problems with the latest kernel? If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged.
I am sorry, I don't use F7 anymore, because I just couldn't seem to find any way to get it working. The strange thing is that I needed all those kernel arguments just to get ACPI working, but now I have rolled back to FC6 and I don't have any kernel arguments at all! I do not want to reinstall F7, because this is the only computer I have and I rely on it for all my work, so I prefer to leave it in a working state. However, it is interesting that Fedora is the only distro (apart from openSuse) that actually works on this laptop - Ubuntu and every other distro that I have tried to run as live CD's just keep crashing while they are still booting. The BIOS on this laptop is a locked version of the Phoenix BIOS, so I can't even get in there and change any settings to make sure that it all works good. Sorry for the lack of information :(
No problem. Have you tried Fedora 8?
Sorry, haven't got it yet (should be getting it on DVD soon) but I am a bit hesitant to try it, since if it goes wrong again, I will have to reinstall FC6 and then start _slowly_ upgrading all my packages again (I don't have a very fast internet connection, so it does take a very long time to download and upgrade all those packages :( ).
You may wish to consider obtaining updated spins from the fedora unity project: http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins as these contain the updates after the release comes out. I'll set this back to NEEDINFO until you get a chance to test F8.
Any update on this?
Sorry, but I haven't really touched my system much - maybe close this bug down? I don't really want to touch my system and risk stuffing the whole lot up all over again - FC6 works and does everything that I need it to do. Can you maybe give me an idea of how long it is supported for? That way I can update before the repositories stop being updated, and then if I still have problems I can just post another bug up here. I have also looked at just updating to a new release by Yum, but since this isn't really supported I don't think that I will do that. Thanks for your helpful support, anyway.
I have done the upgrade to Fedora 8 and this bug is no longer present. I have had no problems with ACPI, so can you now close this bug down please? Thank you for your time and help.