Bug 751741 - Virt-install F16 PV guest in text mode hangs attempting to start Anaconda
Summary: Virt-install F16 PV guest in text mode hangs attempting to start Anaconda
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 742896
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Will Woods
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-07 12:15 UTC by Boris Derzhavets
Modified: 2012-01-09 08:25 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-01-09 08:25:02 UTC
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Description Boris Derzhavets 2011-11-07 12:15:02 UTC 
Created attachment 532030 [details]
Debug trace

Description of problem:

Virt-install F16 PV guest in text mode hangs attempting to start Anaconda

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

16

How reproducible:

Run virt-install with --nographics mode

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Booting installer hangs

Expected results:

Text mode install

Additional info:
Comment 1 Andrew Jones 2011-11-07 14:31:58 UTC 
Try adding 'serial text' to the kernel command line with the virt-install '-x' command line option.
Comment 2 Michael Young 2011-11-07 14:50:52 UTC 
I have seen this as well using xl, and adding serial text doesn't help. If you have a graphical window open I think there is a mini trace back in it. I will post it when I get a chance to reproduce it.
Comment 3 Boris Derzhavets 2011-11-07 16:00:13 UTC 
virt-install -n VF16T -p -x --nographics  -r 2048 -f /dev/sda7 -l http://192.168.0.102/f16 --debug

brings up VNC window , that is not supposed to happen.
Comment 4 Michael Young 2011-11-07 19:19:05 UTC 
The back trace you get in the graphical window with "serial text" is
Starting Anaconda version 16.25.
loader received SIGSEGV!  Backtrace:
/bin/loader[0x42261e]
/bin/loader[0x40967a]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7fb05bbce69d]
/sbin/loader[0x40b799]

However I have also found that booting with "serial text console=hvc0" does work.
Comment 5 Edward Z. Yang 2011-11-26 08:59:03 UTC 
Also can confirm adding "serial text console=hvc0" works.
Comment 6 Miroslav Rezanina 2012-01-09 08:25:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 742896 ***
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