https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c kk zhang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kkzhang@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c2 Maciej Pilichowski changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|bluedzins@wp.pl | --- Comment #2 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-14 20:06:55 UTC --- I am unable to perform regular power off, because computer is not operational, so I have to make cold power down. Then I power it on and second stage installation kicks in. I can say, that both installation after that point were successful. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c4 Tony Jones changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |bluedzins@wp.pl --- Comment #4 from Tony Jones 2012-03-20 01:10:28 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2)

I am unable to perform regular power off, because computer is not operational, so I have to make cold power down.

Then I power it on and second stage installation kicks in. I can say, that both installation after that point were successful.

Are you able to perform kexec on this hardware outside of the install system ... I think this is going to be the best chance of finding the problem, most likely using a serial console. Obviously for most the installer/kexec case is working fine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c6 --- Comment #6 from Tony Jones 2012-03-20 18:22:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5)

With what arguments I should run kexec to mimic the installer restart?

looking at yast2.installer, it does: cmd = sformat("kexec -l --command-line='%1' --initrd='%2' '%3'", String::Quote (kernel_args), String::Quote (initrd), String::Quote (vmlinuz)); y2milestone("Calling kexec via command: %1", cmd); So I would try the following two commands: # kexec -l --command-line="`cat /proc/cmdline`" --initrd=/boot/initrd-`uname -r` /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` # kexec -e The above succeeds on my test system. If it fails on your system without any obvious diagnostic then I will probably want you to repeat it with a serial console. If it succeeds on your system then it would be interesting to know what the command was that y2milestone logged, assuming you still have or can recreate the logfile. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c7 Maciej Pilichowski changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|bluedzins@wp.pl | --- Comment #7 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-20 20:49:32 UTC --- Ok, so restart was done. BUT -- what happened is, immediately after "kexec -e" the display "crashed", instead of anything meaningful top of the monitor was filled with "noise". Then I pressed some keys, and "noise" changed. So I waited a bit, and after few seconds desktop loaded. For me it seems, that the graphic mode is on all the time, but the system at some point assume it is textual mode, or different graphic mode, and the data are interpreted wrong way. What happened during installation, that the system waited for some user action, or simply took long -- since all I saw was noise, I assumed it froze. This is Mac case. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c9 --- Comment #9 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-20 22:24:15 UTC ---

kexec -l/-e makes no attempt to clean up hardware before transitioning to the new kernel

So it is not suitable for installation then, because there is no way for interacting with the process of booting, if anything goes bad, for example entering the password -- how am I to enter anything if my display is broken.

I expect if you try it from the booted system

I did -- see above. If I may -- "premature optimization is root of evil". This is textbook case. Seconds saved on booting up computer, and it does not even work for old hardware (Mac is mid 2009, Dell is around 2004), "troubles" with incoming computers are simple middle name of entire concept, for this report we already lost more time than bunch of seconds. So why installer does not use plain and simple restart, without all this "optimization"? There is enough problems with OS, why bringing more? After all, installation is done once, I would understand speeding up booting up installed system, but installer... My 2 cents for consideration. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c11 --- Comment #11 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-21 07:24:27 UTC ---

Re-read xomment #8. That second command was different.

Indeed, ok, this time for Mac it worked. Now, for Mac it was installation. For Dell it was an update of the system. Because of this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750796 even with the changed arguments, I suspect in case of update of the system, such quick restart might won't work. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c13 --- Comment #13 from Tony Jones 2012-03-21 18:05:21 UTC --- Comment #7 indicated that eventually the screen recovered when doing the kexec -l and kexec -e. Obviously this doesn't exactly match the transition from installer to installed system. Still it would be useful to see dmesg output and Xorg.0.log output for this and also for a normal boot. For each, let the system come up to the point where you can log into the x session manager, open an x-terminal and run 'dmesg > dmesg.txt ; cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log xlog.txt' lspci -vv for your system would be useful also -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c15 --- Comment #15 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-26 18:44:03 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=483279) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=483279) working kexec -- dmesg -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c17 --- Comment #17 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-26 18:49:22 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=483281) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=483281) broken kexec -- dmesg Odd thing, when I made previous attempt (working kexec) I didn't lose authentication at this BTS. When I did the same with broken kexec -- I did. Unrelated note. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c19 --- Comment #19 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-03-26 18:56:08 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=483283) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=483283) regular restart -- dmesg -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c21 Maciej Pilichowski changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Installation |Installation AssignedTo|tonyj@suse.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com Product|openSUSE 12.1 |openSUSE 12.2 Target Milestone|--- |Final --- Comment #21 from Maciej Pilichowski 2012-09-07 22:27:37 UTC --- Despite this report, this "shortcut" was used again. What a surprise, it is still buggy (OS 12.2) -- tested on MBP, _exactly_ the same effect. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c23 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|snwint@suse.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #23 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-09-24 11:45:47 CEST --- Maybe KMS has problems with your machine. Could you try to turn it off? Like adding 'nomodeset' to the boot options? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c25 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED CC| |snwint@suse.com InfoProvider|snwint@suse.com | --- Comment #25 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-09-24 13:08:22 CEST --- Ideally try an installation adding that option. Or at least do comment 6 out of the installation environment. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750798#c Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |tonyj@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.