Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 63377
Installer hangs when loading yenta socket
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 Description of problem: Doing a NFS install on a Panasonic CF-27 laptop. Lapop install hangs right after inserting the pcmciadd.img disk. The last message I can get is loading the yenta driver. I have tried two different 3com pcmcia cards on the same laptop. The 3CCE589EC pcmcia card works fine. The 3CXFE575BT card fails. I've verified the 3CXFE575BT card is functional by using it to do a RedHat 6.2 install on the same laptop. Sorry, the hang keeps me from getting more information. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot using pcmcia.img and a 3CXFE575BT 10/100 pcmcia adapter. 2. When System asks for pcmciadd.img disk. Insert It and hit return. 3. System hangs. Additional info:
If you install using the 3CXFE575BT, does the 3CCE589EC work after installing?
Sorry for the slow reply. I don't have regular access to the laptop. I "can-not" install skipjack-b2 using the 3CXFE575BT. I installed RedHat 6.2 using the 3CXFE575BT just to verify the the card hardware was good. After loading skipjack using the 3CCE589EC, inserting the 3CXFE575BT hangs the system. I have not found anyway to get debugging information from the yenta_socket driver to assist in finding the problem. I tried disabling serial and usb devices in the BIOS to free up resources and I tried the latest 2.4.19-pre7-ac3 kernel. No luck, and I'm losing the laptop again.
Sounds like a kernel problem, but without more concrete information on working with current kernels, there's probably not much Arjan can do.
Using kernel UNI i686 .95 kernel from rawhide on the limbo public beta I'm seeing yenta socket hangs during boot. If I remove pcmcia from the init.d start up I can boot and then issue: /sbin/service pcmcia start Ctrl-C to kill the hang /sbin/service pcmcia stop /sbing/service pcmcia start to get my pcmcia working. I had no troubles with hangs during install.
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