[Bug 304197] New: Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6. x bigsmp instead of default kernel

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197 Summary: Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6.x bigsmp instead of default kernel Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Beta 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mailcentre2@yahoo.co.uk QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- On two different, single processor machines, 10.3 beta 2 has selected the -bigsmp version of the kernel to install, rather than the default one. This causes problems because the -bigsmp version does not seem to have been compiled with the same modules as the default one (pcnet32 is missing for starters). Why is the -bigsmp version being selected on machines that only have a single core processor? The two machines are: VMWare VMPlayer (Windows XP Host) configured in single processor mode. AMD Athlon 2600+ (Barton core) Epox 8RDA3+ mobo Also, upon switching back to the default version after installation breaks the bootsplash screen (boots in text mode). -- 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.

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26 Aug 26 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 304197] Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6. x bigsmp instead of default kernel

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c2 Rod Schaffter changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rschaffter@comcast.net --- Comment #2 from Rod Schaffter 2007-08-26 16:09:13 MST --- I too had the bigsmp kernel install on my old Pentuium III 850 Compaq Armada M700 laptop. It sure boots up quick, and seems to work. However, when update was run, it installed the Xen kernel too. I also tried uninstsalling it and installing the default kernel, and afterwards there are no boot options for the kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst, which results in it coming up in text mode as Darren noted. Adding "splash=silent showopts" will fix it. On a fresh install plus update, installing the default kernel alongside the bigsmp and xen kernels does put the correct kernel options in for all kernels. -- 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.

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27 Aug 27 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 304197] Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6. x bigsmp instead of default kernel

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c3 Lukas Ocilka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mailcentre2@yahoo.co.uk --- Comment #3 from Lukas Ocilka 2007-08-27 02:51:19 MST --- Please, attach YaST logs. Anyway, I think this is intentional (but without logs...). -- 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.

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New subject: [Bug 304197] Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6. x bigsmp instead of default kernel

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c4 --- Comment #4 from Rod Schaffter 2007-08-27 07:08:53 MST --- Created an attachment (id=159971) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=159971) Beta 2 Yast install log for PIII 850 Compaq Armada M700 -- 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.

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28 Aug 28 Aug

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New subject: [Bug 304197] Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6. x bigsmp instead of default kernel

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c5 Sven Burmeister changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sven.burmeister@gmx.net Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mailcentre2@yahoo.co.uk | --- Comment #5 from Sven Burmeister 2007-08-28 04:15:48 MST --- Is "pcnet32 missing" also intentional or is the first comment wrong on that aspect? -- 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.

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New subject: [Bug 304197] Kernel selection during installation defaulting to 2.6. x bigsmp instead of default kernel

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c6 Lukas Ocilka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |locilka@novell.com AssignedTo|locilka@novell.com |jsrain@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Lukas Ocilka 2007-08-28 05:15:43 MST --- Kernel switch: PAE ProbeKernel determined: ["kernel-bigsmp"] Selecting 'kernel-bigsmp' as kernel package Packages for base kernel-bigsmp: ["kernel-bigsmp"] So it is intentional. Reassigning to jsrain to reevaluate (because he has implemented that) but I guess it works as expected. -- 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.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c7 --- Comment #7 from Darren Clarke 2007-08-28 11:50:30 MST --- Where would I find the installation logs? "I guess it works as expected" Really? Could someone post the .config file for both the default kernel and the bigsmp kernel, because I have observed that certain modules are missing. Look at bug #298944. Again, the bigsmp kernel is shown to have missing components. If this is "expected", what does that say... -- 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.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c8 --- Comment #8 from Andreas Jaeger 2007-08-28 12:03:09 MST --- 298944 is fixed, the configurations are the same. Both kernel-default and kernel-smp have pcnet32 as modules: bigsmp:CONFIG_PCNET32=m bigsmp:CONFIG_PCNET32_NAPI=y default:CONFIG_PCNET32=m default:CONFIG_PCNET32_NAPI=y rpm -ql kernel-bigsmp |grep pcnet32 /lib/modules/2.6.22.5-2-bigsmp/kernel/drivers/net/pcnet32.ko Darren, with Beta2 there should be the same modules. Here's a diff between the configs: --- default 2007-08-25 12:54:53.000000000 +0200 +++ bigsmp 2007-08-25 12:54:53.000000000 +0200 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ # # General setup # -CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-default" +CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-bigsmp" # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set CONFIG_SUSE_KERNEL=y CONFIG_SWAP=y @@ -172,12 +172,13 @@ CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y +CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_MINIMUM_CPU_MODEL=4 CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y -CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32 +CONFIG_NR_CPUS=128 CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set @@ -207,10 +208,12 @@ CONFIG_DCDBAS=m CONFIG_DMIID=y # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set -CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y -# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set +# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set +CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC0000000 CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y +CONFIG_X86_PAE=y +# CONFIG_NUMA is not set CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP=y CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y @@ -220,7 +223,7 @@ CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4 -# CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT is not set +CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT=y CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1 CONFIG_NR_QUICK=1 CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y @@ -1553,6 +1556,7 @@ CONFIG_I2O=m CONFIG_I2O_LCT_NOTIFY_ON_CHANGES=y CONFIG_I2O_EXT_ADAPTEC=y +CONFIG_I2O_EXT_ADAPTEC_DMA64=y CONFIG_I2O_CONFIG=m CONFIG_I2O_CONFIG_OLD_IOCTL=y CONFIG_I2O_BUS=m -- 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.

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29 Aug 29 Aug

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c9 --- Comment #9 from Lukas Ocilka 2007-08-29 00:56:27 MST --- (In reply to comment #7 from Darren Clarke)

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Where would I find the installation logs?

/var/log/YaST/ directory

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"I guess it works as expected"

Really?

Could someone post the .config file for both the default kernel and the bigsmp kernel, because I have observed that certain modules are missing.

You have to distinguish between two different issues: 1.) Kernel selection during installation - based on features supported by processor, size of RAM, etc. 2.) Bugs in Kernel packages - such as missing modules or real bugs in Kernel itself YaST / Installation can always solve only case "1", the other issue must be reported, solved separately... -- 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.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c10 --- Comment #10 from Lukas Ocilka 2007-08-29 00:57:12 MST --- (Er, the directory is '/var/log/YaST2/' sorry) -- 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.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c11 Jared Jensen changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jajensen@novell.com --- Comment #11 from Jared Jensen 2007-08-29 10:17:25 MST --- I have an IBM thinkpad T43p single processor machine that default installed the bigsmp kernel. It also only has 1GB of memory. -- 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.

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30 Aug 30 Aug

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c12 --- Comment #12 from Jiri Srain 2007-08-30 03:03:28 MST --- It has been decided to use the bigsmp kernel regardless the amount of memory or the count of CPUs. The only rule which defines which kernel will be used by default is the presence of the PAE extensions. -- 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.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304197#c14 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aj@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED Info Provider|aj@novell.com | Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #14 from Andreas Jaeger 2007-08-30 13:18:48 MST --- I think this can be marked as fixed. The missing module are solved and the rest is intentional - and documented now in the release notes. After 10.3, let's discuss renaming kernel-bigsmp... -- 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.

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