Bug 498307 - F11-Preview installer loader crashes when booting installer with ks nodmraid
Summary: F11-Preview installer loader crashes when booting installer with ks nodmraid
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-29 19:54 UTC by Alexandre Oliva
Modified: 2009-04-30 21:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-04-30 21:23:54 UTC
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2009-04-29 19:54:51 UTC
Description of problem:
If you boot up the installer with the dmraid option, it will crash before detecting network interfaces.  Without dmraid, it works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F11-Preview

How reproducible:
Every time, on i386 and x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Take vmlinuz and initrd.img from pxeboot in the install image, and set grub up to boot from them, passing 'ks nodmraid' to it
2.Boot up the installer
  
Actual results:
running /sbin/loader
loader received SIGSEG!  Backtrace:
/sbin/loader(loaderSegvHandler+0xa0)[0x804fffe0]
[0xa60400]
/sbin/loader(isKickstartFileremote+0x3d)[0x8058f6d]
/sbin/loader[0x804f9d5]
/sbin/loader(main+0x674)[0x8051014]
/sbin/loader(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x5de8e6]
/sbin/loader[0x804dd91]
install exited abnormally [1/1]


Expected results:
No such crash.  Booting up without nodmraid probes and configures the network interface to obtain the kickstart file.


Additional info:
All there is in VT3 is the kernel command line INFO line.
VT$ ends with detection of the synaptics touchpad.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-04-29 20:12:51 UTC
What does your boot command line look like?  I think this is the first time I've ever seen a segfault in this function before.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2009-04-29 20:14:45 UTC
...by which I meant, can you paste the complete line in here?  Or is it just "ks nodmraid"?

Comment 3 Alexandre Oliva 2009-04-30 02:00:40 UTC
Just ks nodmraid was enough to trigger the problem.  I had ramdisk_size=8192, noipv6 and ksdevice=eth0 as well, but discarding them didn't make any difference.

Comment 4 Chris Lumens 2009-04-30 21:23:54 UTC
This will be fixed in the next build of anaconda.  Thanks for the bug report.


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