[Bug 708214] New: Desktop kernel won't load in 12.1 M3. The default kernel works fine.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c0 Summary: Desktop kernel won't load in 12.1 M3. The default kernel works fine. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Factory Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nrickert@ameritech.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 If I attempt to boot using the desktop kernel vmlinuz-3.0.0-rc7-2-desktop the system hangs and has to be powered off to recover. The last line that I see on the console is the "initrd" line. Then the screen blanks, then nothing. Nothing significant is displayed, and nothing is logged. Computer is a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop. Although 64 bit capable, I installed the 32 bit version in a test partition. The system has 6G of memory, but it is not all accessible with the default kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot 2. Select the desktop kernel in the grub menu 3. Hit enter. See the system hang. -- 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c1 --- Comment #1 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-09-02 01:45:02 UTC --- This problem still exists with M5, and kernel vmlinuz-3.0.0-4-desktop Again, the default kernel boots fine while the desktop kernel appears to hang while loading the 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c2 --- Comment #2 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-09-04 04:05:29 UTC --- I reinstalled M5, this time as 64 bit. The desktop kernel is fine for the 64 bit install. It was the 32 bit install that failed to load. (I suspect the PAE functionality was the problem). -- 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c3 --- Comment #3 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-10-02 05:12:01 UTC --- An additional datapoint. I have installed 12.1 Beta1, as 32bit. The desktop kernel still fails to load. The default kernel loads without problems. -- 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c4 --- Comment #4 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-10-06 16:25:47 UTC --- Yet another datapoint. I installed Beta1 32 bit on another system with AMD athlon processor. The Desktop kernel loads there. The system has only 2G of memory, while the system where it does not load has 6G. And a comment: I am doubting that this will be fixed in time for the 12.1 release (or perhaps ever). We probably need to advise people with more than 4G of memory, that they should install a 64 bit system and not depend on the PAE extensions for the 32 bit 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c Ismail Donmez <idonmez@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |idonmez@suse.com Summary|Desktop kernel won't load |Problem with 32bit -desktop |in 12.1 M3. The default |kernel on machine with > |kernel works fine. |4GB RAM -- 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c5 --- Comment #5 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-10-23 05:26:07 UTC --- One more datapoint. The problem still exists with rc1 (as I expected). However, I found another complication. This time I installed from the DVD instead of from the live CD. The installer chose the desktop kernel. Unfortunately, I could not select the default kernel due to bug 725874. The result was an installed but incompletely configured system that would not boot. Perhaps the installer should always select the default kernel on 32 bit systems, as long as this bug is there. Otherwise inexperienced user may get an unbootable system if they happen to have hardware where the desktop kernel fails to load. -- 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c6 --- Comment #6 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-11-18 05:01:07 UTC --- This problem still exists in 12.1 final release. I will continue to occasionally check, but I won't further report for a while unless there is a 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c7 Frank Knoben <admin@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |admin@igpm.rwth-aachen.de --- Comment #7 from Frank Knoben <admin@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> 2012-01-02 14:30:24 UTC --- My problems with booting the standard kernel were fixed, after adding an iommu option to the kernel parameters. The kernel had problems with the bios iommu setup. I think, the handling of the memory hole between 15M-16M causes the system to crash while booting. I added iommu=noaperture to the boot parameters. If that does not work, maybe another iommu option will 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c8 --- Comment #8 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2012-01-02 19:01:27 UTC ---
I added iommu=noaperture to the boot parameters.
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it did not help. So I tried "iommu=off" and "iommu=force". Neither of those helped either. What I failed to mention in earlier reports, is that the desktop kernel ran fine with openSUSE 11.4, and with the first 12.1 milestone I tested (I think that was M2). It seemed to have no problem with the 2.x kernels used then, and there were no boot messages about BIOS bugs. Whatever the problem is, it is new to the 3.x 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c9 Ned Ulbricht <nedu@netscape.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |nedu@netscape.net --- Comment #9 from Ned Ulbricht <nedu@netscape.net> 2012-01-30 22:13:17 UTC --- I am NOT seeing this on 32bit-desktop running on 32bit system with 5 GB memory: Machine is IBM Intellistation 6221 with dual Xeon processors (2 x Intel SL6VN) and 5 GB ECC memory (Intel E7505 MCH). Boots and runs kernel-desktop-3.1.9-1.4.1.i586 from openSUSE 12.1 without seeing hang at initrd. (During lifetime, this machine has also run openSUSE 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and several earlier 12.1 kernels.) Does this bug only manifest on 64bit systems? -- 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=708214 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708214#c10 Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #10 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2012-01-30 22:56:15 UTC ---
Does this bug only manifest on 64bit systems?
I'm not sure. Perhaps it only occurs for Intel core i3 processors. In any case - good news. There was a kernel update today, to: 3.1.9-1.4 and the desktop kernel is finally loading after that update. So I guess the bug is fixed. I'm not sure if I am supposed to mark this as resolved. But I will. Somebody else can change it back if that is not appropriate. -- 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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