Bug 471978 - Constant reboot (startup udev)
Summary: Constant reboot (startup udev)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Feeney
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-18 00:30 UTC by Theriel
Modified: 2013-01-10 07:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:52:29 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
acpidump (134.81 KB, text/plain)
2008-11-18 19:13 UTC, Theriel
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Launchpad 272530 0 None None None Never

Description Theriel 2008-11-18 00:30:43 UTC
Description of problem:
Fedora constantly reboots on loading while using laptop Samsung Q310

Version of Linux:
Fedora 10 Preview x64 Live

How reproducible:
Turn on Fedora with Live CD on Samsung Q310 (not confirmed in other notebooks). While booting (preferably without rhgb and without quiet) it gets to the point:

Welcome to Fedora. Press "I" to enter interactive startup.
Starting: udev

Then the system reboots.


Information from Ubuntu forum (http://tinyurl.com/6ol2mw) confirms similar problem. Suggested solutions on that forum:
-Booting with "acpi=off" or "acpi=ht" 
-With cpufreq disabled in the kernel, and the thermal and processor modules blacklisted then the system boots OK
-"Incidentally, everything seems to work perfectly on a 32bit LiveCD"

Comment 1 Theriel 2008-11-18 12:10:44 UTC
Probable similarity to the bug 467519 (Samsung R560).

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2008-11-18 13:22:45 UTC
blacklisting sounds like a kernel problem

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-11-18 16:20:03 UTC
I suspect this machine has severely broken ACPI tables.
Can you install pmtools, run acpidump and attach the output ?

Comment 4 Theriel 2008-11-18 19:13:32 UTC
Created attachment 323946 [details]
acpidump

This it the result of acpidump. I run it on the newest Madriva, which surprisingly started from LiveCD and worked without any problems - I hope this helps somehow.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 05:32:39 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 6 Theriel 2008-11-27 02:15:04 UTC
I am happy to inform you that this bug does not exist any longer.

The newest bios for Samsung Q310 + Fedora 10 (final) work perfectly.

Comment 7 Theriel 2008-12-23 12:09:20 UTC
Unfortunately, I have to withdraw my previous statement.

My previous statement referred to Fedora 10 32 bit, which works OK. Nonetheless, the bug is still present on 64 bit version of Fedora. I am unable to boot without acpi=off parameter.

Comment 8 Theriel 2008-12-23 12:44:18 UTC
Link to Ubuntu bugs, where people also refer to Fedora 10 and confirm the same problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/272530

Comment 9 JanS 2009-08-26 17:24:54 UTC
I can confirm this bug in Fedora 11 x86_64 Live
I have Samsung X360

On Fedora 11 i686 Live works very well, whereas on x86_64 it reboots constantly in endless loop.

Please change version of this bug from 10 to 11.

I am sure (from reading another posts and bug reports, eg. Ubuntu) that this is not only problem of Samsung Q310, R560, X360 but possibly for many more Samsung laptops.

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 07:51:13 UTC
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Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:52:29 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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