https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837 User aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c2 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |snwint@novell.com Severity|Blocker |Major --- Comment #2 from Andreas Jaeger 2008-05-15 09:14:56 MST --- This is not a blocker. -- 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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c4 --- Comment #4 from Yi Xu 2008-05-15 10:24:06 MST --- a) yes b) didn't notice. Will try again. -- 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=390837 Yi Xu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|yxu@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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c7 --- Comment #7 from Yi Xu 2008-05-16 02:37:42 MST --- (In reply to comment #6 from Martin Mrazik)

Yi: I don't understand why this was re-assigned to bnc-screening team. Steffen: reassigning back to you

Oh, I clicked reassign to default assignee. Seems that doesn't work although someone already took the bug. -- 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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c9 --- Comment #9 from Yi Xu 2008-05-16 03:51:36 MST --- linuxrc.debug=1 linuxrc.log=/tmp/linuxrc.log didn't write any log. -- 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=390837 Yi Xu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|yxu@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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c12 --- Comment #12 from Yi Xu 2008-05-16 06:20:32 MST --- You can ssh neme2.suse.de (or colfax.suse.de) to check boot menu. -- 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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c13 --- Comment #13 from Yi Xu 2008-05-16 06:42:09 MST --- I have installed numerous times of OS on this host with the same script and same method (vncviewer), and only this time it crashed. -- 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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c15 Yi Xu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|yxu@novell.com | --- Comment #15 from Yi Xu 2008-05-16 07:15:55 MST --- There was no message on console 3, just some information on console 4. -- 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=390837 User yxu@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c17 --- Comment #17 from Yi Xu 2008-05-16 07:34:18 MST --- Created an attachment (id=215973) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=215973) crash log -- 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=390837 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c19 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #19 from Stefan Dirsch 2008-05-16 08:31:08 MST --- This is a duplicate of a bugreport I needed to close as WORKSFORME since I couldn't reproduce it. This behaviour won't change when trying to reproduce again. -- 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=390837 User andrew@joako.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c21 Andreas van dem Helge changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #21 from Andreas van dem Helge 2008-06-30 10:46:18 MDT --- I reported bug 404688. In my case using the java VNC viewer located at ipaddress:5801 *DOES NOT* work. Stefan: What version of openSUSE did you attempt to reproduce this bug on and using what hardware? What are the exact parameters you passed to the booatloader? -- 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=390837 User aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c22 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|aj@suse.de | AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com Severity|Blocker |Major Priority|P3 - Medium |P5 - None --- Comment #22 from Andreas Jaeger 2008-07-01 01:43:55 MDT --- Undoing last change. -- 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=390837 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c24 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com --- Comment #24 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-07-01 03:36:20 MDT --- Sorry Stefan, but AFAIK it is Xvnc that crashes (see comment 18). No idea what I could do about it. -- 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=390837 Andreas van dem Helge changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |VERIFIED -- 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=390837 User andrew@joako.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c27 --- Comment #27 from Andreas van dem Helge 2008-07-01 04:13:41 MDT --- Also what OS and VNC viewer are you connecting from? -- 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=390837 User andrew@joako.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c29 Andreas van dem Helge changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #29 from Andreas van dem Helge 2008-07-01 08:12:45 MDT --- I reported bug # 404688 against 11.0 final but it was rejected. The issue persists in the final release. -- 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=390837 User brian@aljex.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c31 white brian changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |brian@aljex.com --- Comment #31 from white brian 2008-07-01 12:23:21 MDT --- I don't even use the vnc install option myself so I'm not highly motivated to fix it or see that it gets fixed either, but I can confirm it's definitely broken in the final release 11.0 when trying to install onto 2 different Dell PowerEdge 1550. These are dual p3 with 1G registered ecc ram. I have not tried the 11.0 vnc installer on other machines. I have tried the vnc installer from opensuse 10.3 on the same machines and it worked fine. I have installed 10.3 and 11.0 using everything but vnc (serial console, ssh, and regular direct gui console) and those install methods all worked fine and the resulting installed os shows no problems. If I can find any way to spare any of my copious free time, I'll try to find a machine that doesn't produce the same results. There is one suspect thing. The machines display no problems running linux/freebsd/dos/freedos, but they do cause memtest86+ 2.01 to display an error that a tiny bit of ram at the top end of the physical address space is bad. It doesn't matter how much ram is installed or what physical chips are installed or in what order, the error is always the last few K at the top end. And, both machines do the same thing, and I've read other people describing the same thing for years on these particular machines and other similar ones from Dell. So, that appears to be some kind of bios shadowing. My install kernel, initrd, and oss repository all came from this script, run and re-run several times well after the final release of 11.0. [code] SYNC="rsync -a --del --delete-excluded --exclude ppc --exclude ppc64 --exclude src --exclude SRPMS $@" # 11.0 $SYNC rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss /opt/SUSE/11.0 $SYNC rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/mirrors/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss /opt/SUSE/11.0 $SYNC rsync://rsync.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/11.0/* /opt/SUSE/11.0/update $SYNC rsync://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.0/* /opt/SUSE/11.0/packman [/code] The clients booted the kernel and initrd via pxe. The exact pxelinux config stanza was: LABEL opensuse KERNEL linux APPEND initrd=initrd showopts install=http://host/SUSE/11.0/oss vnc=1 vncpassword=foo More details about my test, including vc4 error messages are here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-06/msg02365.html It's really part of this thread but I was posting from a new machine without the prior posts to reply to: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-06/msg01931.html And at least someone else has the same problem: http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/386983-remote-vnc-controlled-i... I'd say there is a problem that doesn't affect every machine, and appears in a feature that not many people use, and so the reports will be a bit rare, but I think it's hard to say the problem doesn't exist. But perhaps it's just hard for me to say that because I am staring at 2 machines showing the problem. Remember, the same feature in the 10.3 installer does not fail on the same hardware, 2 different copies of the same hardware. -- 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=390837 User brian@aljex.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c33 --- Comment #33 from white brian 2008-07-01 20:47:58 MDT --- How in the world do you arrive that that bug is the same as this one, just because they both have "installer" and "vnc" in the text?

From what I can see they are not even remotely related.

I didn't notice any problem with nics being recognized out of expected order and given unexpected device names. The nics worked fine and the vnc client actually does connect to the vnc server and negotiates the password and displays a screen, merely somewhat scrambled but not beyond all recognition or anything. Doesn't that kind of put us past any issues with the nic? Bridging was not enabled in the bios either, this bios doesn't even have that ability, so apps are either talking to the correct nic or they're not talking at all. But forget all that, The other bug happens _after install_ after the the reboot and into the 2nd stage of install, which is really just config no longer install. This bug happens _before install_. This is stupid. -- 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=390837 User andrew@joako.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c35 Andreas van dem Helge changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mmrazik@novell.com --- Comment #35 from Andreas van dem Helge 2008-07-01 20:59:28 MDT --- *** Bug 389386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389386 -- 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=390837 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390837#c37 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #37 from Stefan Dirsch 2008-07-02 00:25:35 MDT --- *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 389386 *** https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389386 -- 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.