[Bug 240846] New: startup, hangs at activating device mapper
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 Summary: startup, hangs at activating device mapper Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mnodora@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Environment: HP dv2000, Intel core 2 Duo Processor dual boot with Windows XP Home Edition Test case: - Installed openSuSE 10.2 x86-64 on top of Win XP. Installation successful. - Suse often fails to boot, when it fails to boot, it always hangs on activating device mapper. last line: activating device mapper... Extra Info: (Similar problems from Suse forum Users) http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=28040&hl=activating+device+mapper http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=28203&hl=activating+device+mapper -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 lmb@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel- |cgao@novell.com |maintainers@forge.provo.nove| |ll.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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 cgao@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|cgao@novell.com |fehr@novell.com ------- Comment #1 from cgao@novell.com 2007-02-01 08:53 MST ------- Thomas, would you please take a look? I have no clue what's going on here. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 fehr@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ------- Comment #2 from fehr@novell.com 2007-02-01 09:28 MST ------- Activating device-mapper just does a lsmod and the modprobes dm-mod looke more like a problem with kernel loading certain modules or being stuch in lsmod. Reassigning to kernel. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #3 from mnodora@gmail.com 2007-02-01 13:08 MST ------- Originally, I thought it was a USB mouse connected to the laptop during boot that was causing the hang(unresponsive device). I have disproved this though because the problem is reproducible even with no devices connected to the laptop. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 lmb@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mnodora@gmail.com ------- Comment #4 from lmb@novell.com 2007-02-05 02:22 MST ------- Can you get us the sysrq-t and sysrq-p output from the system in said state? (See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt for details.) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 gellert@arasca.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gellert@arasca.de ------- Comment #5 from gellert@arasca.de 2007-02-07 19:21 MST ------- My laptop ALWAYS hangs on "Activating device mapper". It is a fujitsu-siemens and has no USB devices attached... Well, sysrq-t is a bit lengthy, this is what I get with sysrq-p: SysRq: Show Regs Pid: 1948, comm: ipw3945/0 EIP: 0060:[<f9040e64>] CPU: 0 EIP is at ipw_bg_alive_start+0x11c/0x1a1 [ipw3945] EFLAGS: 00000246 Tainted: G U (2.6.18.2-34-default #1) EAX: 00000000 EBX: f78ecbbc ECX: a1a37832 EDX: 0000015b ESI: 0305278e EDI: c2155840 EBP: 00000296 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7e73cf0 CR3: 003d3000 CR4: 000006d0 [<c012e639>] run_workqueue+0x83/0xc5 [<c01298a8>] do_sigaction+0x117/0x156 [<f9040d48>] ipw_bg_alive_start+0x0/0x1a1 [ipw3945] [<c012ef54>] worker_thread+0xd9/0x10d [<c011a7e2>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc [<c012ee7b>] worker_thread+0x0/0x10d [<c0131420>] kthread+0xc0/0xec [<c0131360>] kthread+0x0/0xec [<c0102005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb The last few lines of SysRQ-T are: modprobe R running 0 2078 2071 (NOTLB) kstopmachine R running 0 2080 9 2081 1951 (L-TLB) kstopmachine R running 0 2081 2080 (L-TLB) Is this sufficient for you? Hope this helps... Cheers, Olaf -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #6 from gellert@arasca.de 2007-02-07 19:24 MST ------- Correction: my system does not always hang with this error, but quite often (on the fourth try it worked...) Olaf -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #7 from lmb@novell.com 2007-02-15 07:34 MST ------- sysrq-t might be lengthy, but it's the bit we need, sorry. (Preferably including all boot logs.) sysrq-p is not sufficient. Please remember to remove the NEEDINFO state using the checkbox below this text area when providing the requested information so it comes up on our radar 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 manschke@uni-bremen.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |manschke@uni-bremen.de ------- Comment #8 from manschke@uni-bremen.de 2007-02-21 09:21 MST ------- Same problem for me: Lenovo Thinkpad T60, Intel core 2 Duo, with WinXP and openSuSE 10.2 x86-64 . Booting opensuse often fails at "activating device mapper..." It turns out to be "modprobe dm-mod" . Booting with "acpi=noirq" or "acpi=off" does not show the problem, but has bad influence on usb devices and sound. Booting with "acpi=strict" is mostly successful and keeps usb and sound intact. Disabling of acpid via chkconfig for all levels does not help. Regards, Andreas -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 a.maier@hima.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |silviu_marin-caea@otpbank.ro ------- Comment #9 from a.maier@hima.com 2007-02-23 04:42 MST ------- *** Bug 244556 has been marked as a duplicate of this 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 a.maier@hima.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |a.maier@hima.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mnodora@gmail.com | ------- Comment #10 from a.maier@hima.com 2007-02-23 05:05 MST ------- Same problem here with a Benq Joybook R55. How can i dump the output of sysrq-t to a file so that i can provide you the information? Regards Alexander -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #11 from mnodora@gmail.com 2007-02-23 10:12 MST ------- Is there a way to save sysrq-t or scroll back? It goes past my screen so I cannot obtain all of the info dumped to the console. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846
------- Comment #12 from mnodora@gmail.com 2007-02-23 10:45 MST -------
FYI, This is the partial information I see on sysrq-t
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80226bda>] do_sigaction+0x153/0x19e
[<ffffffff802926b3>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0x61
[<ffffffff80245d4d>] worker_thread+0x0/0x122
[<ffffffff80245d4d>] worker_thread+0x0/0xc122
[<ffffffff8027f340>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
[<ffffffff802926b3>] kevent_create_kthread+0x0/0x61
[<ffffffff802926b3>] kevent_create_kthread+0x0/0x61
[<ffffffff80230838>] kthread+0xec/0x120
[<ffffffff80258e98>] keventd_creat_kthread+0x0/0x61
[<ffffffff8023074c>] kthread+0x0/0x120
[<ffffffff80258e8e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
ipw3945d S ffff81003ae4be08 0 1981 1 1843
(NOTLB)
ffff81003ae4be08 ffff81003e416380 ffff81003c221000 0000000000000007
ffff81003ba6d7b0 ffff81003e14b7b0 00000006a5fc7924 000000000000b02c
ffff81003ba6d9b8 0000000000000001 ffffffff8023bc03 ffff91003ae4be18
Call Trace:
[
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 lmb@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mnodora@gmail.com ------- Comment #13 from lmb@novell.com 2007-02-26 05:48 MST ------- sysrq-t output is also written to /var/log/messages by default. Please attach the whole piece of that (attaching will prevent white-space mangling). -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #14 from martmai@gmx.de 2007-03-01 00:54 MST ------- Same Problem on Thinkpad T60 (Lenovo), but the sysrq-t output is not written to /var/log/messages by default. I don't know how to enable the logging to /var/log/messages. So I can not attach the sysrq-t output. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 matutet@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |matutet@gmail.com ------- Comment #15 from matutet@gmail.com 2007-03-04 03:33 MST ------- Same problem on Dell Latittude D520. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 missalock@hotmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |missalock@hotmail.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mnodora@gmail.com | ------- Comment #16 from missalock@hotmail.com 2007-03-07 10:56 MST ------- Sysrq-T is Not reported to /var/log/messages. HP Pavilion DV2000T w/ INTEL core2 Duo. Please let me know how i can turn this logging on if it is not currently enabled. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 gregkh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mnodora@gmail.com ------- Comment #17 from gregkh@novell.com 2007-03-07 15:32 MST ------- As the kernel is probably hung, the information will not get written out. Can you try using either a serial console or a network console? Both of those should be able to provide you this information from a different computer. To set up either of these, look at the directions in the kernel directory at Documentation/serial-console.txt or: Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 firewallsecured@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |firewallsecured@gmail.com ------- Comment #18 from firewallsecured@gmail.com 2007-03-27 13:19 MST ------- *** Bug 258081 has been marked as a duplicate of this 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #19 from firewallsecured@gmail.com 2007-03-28 06:37 MST ------- in my case, the system boots properly "at least once" (this is not to be confused with the openSUSE initiated first time login after installing the OS) then ONLY the problem starts. To me it looks like some kind of a cached setting (SWAP?) from previous boot the OS is trying to load and finding it incompatible? A brief screen dump from my system. The machine is freshly started and not rebooted. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Activating Swap-devices in /etc/fstab... Adding 763520k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extends:1 across:763520k Loading required kernel modules Activating kernel mapper... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 ------- Comment #20 from firewallsecured@gmail.com 2007-03-28 06:46 MST ------- 1. I booted to FailSafe mode and rebooted. 2. openSUSE booted normally for the SECOND time now. There was no "Activating Device Manager" halt all these times. Looks like this is not Hardware incompatibility with my laptop to me. Thanks for all the help. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 andreas.mahel@gmx.net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |andreas.mahel@gmx.net ------- Comment #21 from andreas.mahel@gmx.net 2007-03-29 02:16 MST ------- I'm experiencing the same problem, Fujitsu-Siemens laptop, opensuse 10.2: randomly the boot hangs when Some additional observations: - It seems that the probability for a successful boot increases if I have a USB memory stick attached (this is a very subjective statement, though) - I added some additional echo statements to boot.device-mapper, as well as an lsmod (to check for the question raised in comment #2); it really seems to happen during the "modprobe dm-mod" - I commented out the "modprobe dm-mod" within boot.device-mapper. This caused the lvm module to spit out some error messages (as expected, but since I don't use lvm, this shouldn't really bother, should it?). However, some steps later, the boot process halted again, this time during some udev disk mapping action (I believe, I don't have the machine at hand now). At a later attempt the machine booted fine, so I guess it might be some problem with udev? Where should I focus additional checks? I'm willing to spend some more time, but need some guidance where to look. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846 bdimm@hotneuron.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bdimm@hotneuron.com ------- Comment #22 from bdimm@hotneuron.com 2007-06-09 07:41 MST ------- I get hung on "Activating device mapper" about 4% of the time with my Dell Latitude D620. I don't have any USB devices plugged in -- just the power chord and the ethernet cable. System specs: OpenSUSE 10.2 x86-64, fully patched (2.6.18.8-0.3-default), two encrypted partitions (/home and /db1) dual boot with Windows XP Pro Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM 100GB Hard Drive, 9.5MM, 7200RPM Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module 8X DVD+/-RW w/Roxio Digital Media[tm] and Cyberlink Power DVD[tm] Intel 3945 802.11a/g Dual-Band Mini Card -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c23
Will Stephenson
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c24
Bastien Chevreux
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c25
--- Comment #25 from Olaf Gellert
Looks like the drivers for the problem is cause in some way by Intel Pro Wireless 3945 WLAN card.
Temporary remedy: - either de-install "ipw3945d" (version 1.7.18-29) and "ipw-firmware" (version 7-31) or
This seems to help in my case, too. Since I removed the packages my laptop booted without hanging. So this is for sure a good pointer to finally find and fix the bug. I can live without WLAN right now. -- 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=240846#c27
Jeff Mahoney
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846
Jeff Mahoney
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c28
--- Comment #28 from Jeff Mahoney
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c29
--- Comment #29 from Olaf Gellert
I think the "activating device mapper" part of the bug is just what happens to be displayed when the hang occurs. It's likely that what's happening is that there is a race occurring in the kernel in the background. The wireless driver sounds like a reasonable culprit for that. Inserting a USB stick would change the probability of the hang occurring, as would fiddling with the ACPI options.
Well and just today my laptop hung again five times before booting successfully. A short look revealed that somehow the ipw-packets happened to be installed again on my laptop. After removing them, the thingie booted without hanging... Hmmm...
What we *really* need to track this bug down is a *full* sysrq+t trace, captured via serial console from another system. /var/log/messages will never contain the information we're looking for because 1) klogd hasn't started yet, and 2) the system is hung, so klogd wouldn't have been able to save the log anyway.
Yes, sure. I would really like to help out with that. But my laptop doesn't have a serial port, only USB. I guess a USB2serial converter does not help because it will not be active at this early stage of booting. Any suggestions what I can do to help? Regards, Olaf -- 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=240846#c30
--- Comment #30 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c31
--- Comment #31 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c32
--- Comment #32 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c33
--- Comment #33 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c34
--- Comment #34 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c35
--- Comment #35 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c36
robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c37
--- Comment #37 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c38
Robert Partyka
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c39
--- Comment #39 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c40
Matej Horvath
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c41
Marvin Nodora
(In reply to comment #30 from robert spitzenpfeil)
sorry for the multiple posts, I've messed it up.
intended post:
same problem here ;-(
fujitsu-siemens amilo pro 3205
using the kernel from the cd (2.6.18.2-34-default) worked like a charm ! since the update to 2.6.18.8-0.5-default wireless is broken with symptoms mentioned before.
physically removing the ipw3945.ko from the system "solves" the problem. booting with failsafe settings won't work due to sata detection trouble.
find attached:
/var/log/warn /var/log/messages hwinfo.txt lspci.txt boot.msg boot.omsg
there should be some trace messages in there obtained with sysrq-p and t
I think robert has provided the info, so removing the NEEDINFO status -- 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=240846
Jeff Mahoney
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c42
Jeff Mahoney
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c43
--- Comment #43 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c44
--- Comment #44 from robert spitzenpfeil
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c45
Marvin Nodora
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c46
--- Comment #46 from Karsten Burger
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846
User gregkh@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240846#c47
Greg Kroah-Hartman
participants (1)
-
bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com