[gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue

[gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

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Hi,

I was put in contact with John Davis about a week ago concerning an issue
i'm having with the 2004.2 livecd.  After some research, it appears to be a
re-emergence of a previously reported problem.  See bug id 42345.  Initially
I thought it was accessibility related (I use speakup), but the problem
occurs whether or not speakup is on.  

Details:

I have a p4 3.4 (northwood) Asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo with 1gb RAM (matched
pc-3200 in a dual channel memory configuration).  evga fx5900-vivo video
card, Seagate s-ata (internal), and an external USB drive bay with a Maxtor
40gb hd.  Sony dvd and sony cd-rw drives (hdc and hdd respectively).  Upon
boot with the smp kernel (2.6.7-gentoo-r11) I have an unconfigured eth0
(onboard Intel e1000 csa 82547).  When I run net-setup I get a kernel panic.
The "helpfull" error msg is "n interrupt not synching".  I lose keyboard
control, etc and only the reset button works.  

The 2.4.26-gentoo-r6? kernel works fine and properly configures the network
adapter.  I have loaded the system with 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 compiled for SMP
support and other than issues relating to booting from a USB external hd,
the system seems to be stable.  I am however having to insmod usb-storage
and rerun devfsd /dev -np in order for the hd to be recognized and root of
/dev/sda1 to be loaded.  At some point i'll mod the linuxrc to do this
automagically.  2.6.8-gentoo-r3 is not yet functional, but this may relate
to devfs/udev (i.e. user failure) and I simply haven't had time to gather
all relevant information and throughly test.  

At this point I haven't gotten the system fully configured, but I think i'm
far enough along to provide logs from the 2.6.7 boot, although logging the
panic is beyond my technical skills (I make a decent monkey though, so if
you tell me what to type where i'll give it a try).  In particular, if I can
redirect the log to my hd along with any crash dump i'm more than willing
to.

Regards,

Cecil Whitley

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Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue

[John Davis]

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On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:55, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was put in contact with John Davis about a week ago concerning an
> issue i'm having with the 2004.2 livecd.  After some research, it
> appears to be a re-emergence of a previously reported problem.  See
> bug id 42345.  Initially I thought it was accessibility related (I use
> speakup), but the problem occurs whether or not speakup is on.  
> 
> Details:
> 
> I have a p4 3.4 (northwood) Asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo with 1gb RAM
> (matched pc-3200 in a dual channel memory configuration).  evga
> fx5900-vivo video card, Seagate s-ata (internal), and an external USB
> drive bay with a Maxtor 40gb hd.  Sony dvd and sony cd-rw drives (hdc
> and hdd respectively).  Upon boot with the smp kernel
> (2.6.7-gentoo-r11) I have an unconfigured eth0 (onboard Intel e1000
> csa 82547).  When I run net-setup I get a kernel panic.  The
> "helpfull" error msg is "n interrupt not synching".  I lose keyboard
> control, etc and only the reset button works.  
> 
> The 2.4.26-gentoo-r6? kernel works fine and properly configures the
> network adapter.  I have loaded the system with 2.4.26-gentoo-r9
> compiled for SMP support and other than issues relating to booting
> from a USB external hd, the system seems to be stable.  I am however
> having to insmod usb-storage and rerun devfsd /dev -np in order for
> the hd to be recognized and root of /dev/sda1 to be loaded.  At some
> point i'll mod the linuxrc to do this automagically.  2.6.8-gentoo-r3
> is not yet functional, but this may relate to devfs/udev (i.e. user
> failure) and I simply haven't had time to gather all relevant
> information and throughly test.  
> 
> At this point I haven't gotten the system fully configured, but I
> think i'm far enough along to provide logs from the 2.6.7 boot,
> although logging the panic is beyond my technical skills (I make a
> decent monkey though, so if you tell me what to type where i'll give
> it a try).  In particular, if I can redirect the log to my hd along
> with any crash dump i'm more than willing to.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cecil Whitley

Cecil -
This seems to be more of a kernel bug than anything else and I am not
sure if we can be of assistance. File a bug with the kernel developers
and see if they have anything.

Regards,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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RE: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue

[Whitley CTR Cecil H]

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Hi John,
noapic on the command line resolved it.  Guess reading the docs several
times really does help.  I caught that one on the third time through the
install.txt.
Cecil


-----Original Message-----
From: John Davis [mailto:zhen@gentoo.org]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:46 PM
To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue


On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:55, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was put in contact with John Davis about a week ago concerning an
> issue i'm having with the 2004.2 livecd.  After some research, it
> appears to be a re-emergence of a previously reported problem.  See
> bug id 42345.  Initially I thought it was accessibility related (I use
> speakup), but the problem occurs whether or not speakup is on.  
> 
> Details:
> 
> I have a p4 3.4 (northwood) Asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo with 1gb RAM
> (matched pc-3200 in a dual channel memory configuration).  evga
> fx5900-vivo video card, Seagate s-ata (internal), and an external USB
> drive bay with a Maxtor 40gb hd.  Sony dvd and sony cd-rw drives (hdc
> and hdd respectively).  Upon boot with the smp kernel
> (2.6.7-gentoo-r11) I have an unconfigured eth0 (onboard Intel e1000
> csa 82547).  When I run net-setup I get a kernel panic.  The
> "helpfull" error msg is "n interrupt not synching".  I lose keyboard
> control, etc and only the reset button works.  
> 
> The 2.4.26-gentoo-r6? kernel works fine and properly configures the
> network adapter.  I have loaded the system with 2.4.26-gentoo-r9
> compiled for SMP support and other than issues relating to booting
> from a USB external hd, the system seems to be stable.  I am however
> having to insmod usb-storage and rerun devfsd /dev -np in order for
> the hd to be recognized and root of /dev/sda1 to be loaded.  At some
> point i'll mod the linuxrc to do this automagically.  2.6.8-gentoo-r3
> is not yet functional, but this may relate to devfs/udev (i.e. user
> failure) and I simply haven't had time to gather all relevant
> information and throughly test.  
> 
> At this point I haven't gotten the system fully configured, but I
> think i'm far enough along to provide logs from the 2.6.7 boot,
> although logging the panic is beyond my technical skills (I make a
> decent monkey though, so if you tell me what to type where i'll give
> it a try).  In particular, if I can redirect the log to my hd along
> with any crash dump i'm more than willing to.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cecil Whitley

Cecil -
This seems to be more of a kernel bug than anything else and I am not
sure if we can be of assistance. File a bug with the kernel developers
and see if they have anything.

Regards,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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