https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c2 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |mrmazda@earthlink.net --- Comment #2 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-08-02 15:23:14 CEST --- Something along bug 757368 maybe? -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c4 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |snwint@suse.com AssignedTo|snwint@suse.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #4 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-08-03 14:51:57 CEST --- It's a driver issue after all. It's no good if the kernel creates a floppy block dev but then fails whenever you access 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c6 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@suse.com AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #6 from Jeff Mahoney 2012-08-05 23:03:30 EDT --- A bit of research is yielding predictable results: Your hardware is lying to the kernel and the kernel believes it. Ubuntu's installer runs into this problem, Red Hat's installer runs into this problem. In both cases the advice has been to just disable it in the BIOS and to modify the installation environment to ignore the floppy drive. I'm inclined to follow their leads. The problem with devices this old is that there's no real way to probe it. I'm not sure the kernel actually *can* do anything differently. I'll keep myself on the CC and bounce back to installation. We must be able to stop probing the floppy driver during installation somehow. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c7 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |antoine.mechelynck@belgacom | |.net --- Comment #7 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-10-25 11:53:09 CEST --- *** Bug 783131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c10 Thomas Renninger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rb03884@gmail.com --- Comment #10 from Thomas Renninger 2012-10-31 08:55:24 UTC --- *** Bug 757858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757858 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c12 Jiri Kosina changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |mrmazda@earthlink.net --- Comment #12 from Jiri Kosina 2012-11-26 15:01:17 CET --- There have been quite a few fixes going into floppy driver recently. Could those of you who are seeing this problem please retest with master KOTD? (can be obtained from http://download.suse.de/ibs/Devel:/Kernel:/master/standard/x86_64/ ) and report whether you are still seeing the symptoms? Thanks. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c14 Felix Miata changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoProvider|mrmazda@earthlink.net |jkosina@suse.com --- Comment #14 from Felix Miata 2012-11-26 16:35:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12)

There have been quite a few fixes going into floppy driver recently. Could those of you who are seeing this problem please retest with master KOTD?

I am at a loss to imagine how the problem described in comment 0 can possibly be tested by an ordinary non-programmer, non-OBS user by using KOTD.

(can be obtained from http://download.suse.de/ibs/Devel:/Kernel:/master/standard/x86_64/ )

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c16 --- Comment #16 from Tony Mechelynck 2012-11-27 02:12:21 CET --- (In reply to comment #15)

The users must disabled the floppy diskette in the BIOS, resave the changes and log out so that they can restart their computer.

Usually this problem will disappear.

I have tried disabling floppies in the BIOS, and the result was that the computer wouldn't boot (i.e. for some reason I didn't see the messages normally issued by GRUB). -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c Felix Miata changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Installation |Installation Platform|x86-64 |PC Product|openSUSE 12.2 |openSUSE 12.3 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c19 Thomas Fehr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ilyasbox@gmail.com --- Comment #19 from Thomas Fehr 2013-04-03 08:07:55 UTC --- *** Bug 811901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811901 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c21 --- Comment #21 from Felix Miata 2013-06-22 15:04:48 UTC --- HTTP install from 13.1M2 factory-snapshot to system with 40+ HD partitions and several USB storage assignments without available media, I got long hang after moving selection from KDE to minimal X and trying to proceed. The hang ended immediately when I put a DOS boot floppy in the drive. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c23 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |posix.ru@googlemail.com --- Comment #23 from Jeff Mahoney 2013-07-15 18:51:30 EDT --- *** Bug 783380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783380 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c25 Elmar Stellnberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|jkosina@suse.com | Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #25 from Elmar Stellnberger 2013-10-12 17:33:54 UTC --- as far as I have tested this should be resolved for oS13.1 RC1 (Please reopen if the issue should still persist in another setting). -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c27 --- Comment #27 from Felix Miata 2013-10-14 20:01:47 UTC --- FWIW, any time I find fd0 in a device.map file, I remove its line. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c29 James Moe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED CC| |jimoe@sohnen-moe.com Version|RC 1 |Final Resolution|FIXED | OS/Version|Other |openSUSE 12.3 --- Comment #29 from James Moe 2013-12-04 07:03:25 UTC --- asus m3a78-em motherboard amd athlon x4 (640) I just discovered this issue. It is not resolved since I have experienced it just this last week. I was attempting to update from 12.3 to 13.1. If the floppy hardware is enabled on the motherboard and no floppy drive is attached, some partition editors hang forever (yast/system/partitioner, gparted). parted does not hang although ti does take a while to finish its startup; it must have a timeout. After disabling the floppy interface, the partition editors worked as expected and I could later upgrade the system. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c31 --- Comment #31 from Tony Mechelynck 2013-12-14 03:57:57 CET --- Sounds like a checkbox to bypass hardware testing would be a good thing to have. Of course it makes installation/update more dependent on (correct) user action, which is something openSUSE seems to be steadily moving away 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c33 --- Comment #33 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-08 16:42:58 CET --- Created an attachment (id=573717) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=573717) [PATCH] floppy: bail out in open() if drive is not responding OK, this is a very crude patch that I'd appreciate if anyone with the affected system could test, to see if the long delays related to probing /dev/fd0 on systems where BIOS is lying about its presence, will go away. Thanks. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c34 --- Comment #34 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-08 16:44:14 CET --- The patch should be applicable to either 12.3 and 13.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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c35 Jiri Kosina changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- InfoProvider|mrmazda@earthlink.net |yast2-maintainers@suse.de --- Comment #35 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-09 16:03:10 CET --- In any of the bugzillas I don't really see a clear indication if this is a regression, and if so, from which version. It's now clear that calling blkid on /dev/fd0 is not a good idea, as it doesn't really bali out when gettin EIO from read(). Yast folks, has there been any change lately, causing blkid to be called on /dev/fd0 when performing detection of partitions, while it has been excluded in the past? Thanks. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c37 --- Comment #37 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-09 16:26:19 CET --- So is there any indication of the last version that was properly working? I fail to see this information in the bugzillas. TIA. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c41 --- Comment #41 from Felix Miata 2014-01-09 17:37:48 UTC --- Sorry to be slow to reply but that's been the fault of Bugzilla since sometime yesterday. (In reply to comment #37)

So is there any indication of the last version that was properly working? I fail to see this information in the bugzillas.

If the information you need would be anywhere in y2logs, then Bugzilla probably has it. I've been leaving y2logs on my server for several years. Here's a list, probably all of which were attached to bugs here within hours of creation: Oct 7 2012 y2l-big31-122-64.tgz Feb 11 2012 y2l-big31-122M1.tgz Oct 7 2012 y2l-big41-122-64.tgz Feb 14 2013 y2l-big41-123RC.tgz Aug 5 00:27 y2l-big41-os131m3.tgz Feb 18 2013 y2l-d5000-os123rc1.tgz Jun 28 2012 y2l-gx150-122B2.tgz Aug 13 12:15 y2l-gx260-131m4.tgz Mar 20 2012 y2l-gx280-122M2.tgz * Sep 19 17:25 y2l-gx280-os131b1.tgz * Sep 6 21:44 y2l-gx28b-os131m4f.tgz * Oct 13 15:23 y2l-hs80e-os131rc1.tgz Jul 11 2011 y2l-kt400-674919.tgz Oct 11 13:45 y2l-kt400-os131rc1.tgz May 28 2012 y2l-kt880122m3.tgz Nov 15 2012 y2l-kt880-131m1.tgz Aug 24 2012 y2l-ss500-2later.tgz Aug 23 2012 y2l-ss500RAIDblaklst.tgz Aug 22 2012 y2l-ss500.tgz After each y2l- is hostname (except hs80e & ss500, which are eSATA device nicknames), then OS version. The three with * have * because gx280 originally had no floppy and gx28b originally did have a floppy, but I moved it from gx28b to gx280 at a point in time I do not remember. My older logs no longer saved locally would still be attachments here, in most if not all cases to bugs I created. So, I'm guessing what you need is here and it's just a matter of finding it. Most of my test systems have floppy drives, and every openSUSE release back through 10.0 is represented here by at least one installation somewhere. So if you provide some script or command needed to test for when something changed I can give identifying the regression version a try. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c43 Jiri Kosina changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |puzel@suse.com InfoProvider|nfbrown@suse.com |werner@suse.com --- Comment #43 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-09 23:34:39 CET --- OK, I think I know what is happening. First things first: - the origin of all this is, that /proc/partitions is now listing fd0 and sd0, which wasn't the case before. Whether this is correct or not is debatable by itself, but not really the core of the problem - both mdadm and libblkid are using /proc/partitions to gather the list of block devices to operate on. This explains why older distributions don't touch fd0, as it's simply not listed in /proc/partitions - mdadm opens /dev/fd0, performs just a few read() iterations when it's trying to autodetect superblock type, and then gives up. This takes 1-2 minutes. - what I believe is the real problem, is libblkid. It opens /dev/fd0, issues ioctl(BLKGETSIZE64), and starts issuing read() calls. When the floppy drive/controller is there, but it's empty, the read() return ENXIO. blkid ignores the error and keeps spinning in the loop. Which is not the right thing to do. I have never seen util-linux sources before, but looking at it for a few minutes, I think the problem is the loop in blkid_probe_get_idmag(). It calls blkid_probe_get_buffer(), which issues the actual read() that returns ENXIO. That causes blkid_probe_get_buffer() to return NULL back to blkid_probe_get_idmag(). The if branch is then not taken (buf is NULL), mag is incremented, and loop restarted. And again, and again ... Adding Werner and Petr (I am not really sure who is proper util-linux maintainer, if someone else is appropriate, please redirect accordingly). Thanks. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c45 --- Comment #45 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-09 23:37:12 CET --- *** Bug 846001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846001 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c47 --- Comment #47 from Felix Miata 2014-01-10 01:32:29 UTC --- FWIW, I can only try any patch for a binary if someone else creates a new binary for me to try. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c49 --- Comment #49 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-10 09:13:02 CET --- (In reply to comment #47)

FWIW, I can only try any patch for a binary if someone else creates a new binary for me to try.

I have built openSUSE 13.1 kernel RPM with the patch added, can be obtained here: http://labs.suse.cz/jikos/download/bug-773058/ I'd propose this way of testing it: - take a machine that exposes the problem - disable floppy in BIOS - install the system - enable floppy in BIOS - verify that yast2 partitioner now hangs when you run it - instal the patched kernel and reboot into it - verify that yas2 partitioner no longer hangs when you run it Thanks. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c51 --- Comment #51 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-10 11:04:23 CET --- I have update the link http://labs.suse.cz/jikos/download/bug-773058/ so that it now contains both 32bit and 64bit RPM builds in case they are needed by anyone for testing. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c53 --- Comment #53 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-10 11:52:00 CET --- Please see comment #49. If your BIOS doesn't allow for disabling the floppy, just pass 'floppy' to the brokenmodules= installation parameter (and remove the blacklist entry from modprobe.conf later once the installation is successfully finished). -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c55 --- Comment #55 from Felix Miata 2014-01-10 14:07:53 UTC --- Replacements for http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/linux and/or http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/linux should also be suitable, and possibly a better idea. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c57 --- Comment #57 from Roman Bysh 2014-01-11 15:59:42 UTC --- Reference http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&tl=en&u=http://thefreecountry.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/new-opensuse-kernel-avaliable-for-testing/&usg=ALkJrhjffWRBv_6NrWejDY0vb9b-PTJKfA -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c59 --- Comment #59 from Felix Miata 2014-01-11 18:37:07 UTC --- (In reply to comment #58)

Try updating the kernel to 3.12 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/

To what end? The only binaries I see there are rpms, no installation linux. I'm already running 3.12 on some 13.1 installations, and all 13.2 installations. As indicated in multiple comments here, I'm unable to reproduce the hang on any installed system. IOW and IIRC, only while running an installation kernel to perform an installation has this *ever* happened to me. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c61 --- Comment #61 from Felix Miata 2014-01-12 03:11:01 UTC --- On 2.4GHz Celeron host t2240 running freshly updated 13.1/KDE4 with 3.11.6-4-desktop release kernel, populating yast2 storage & from terminal took 90+ seconds with floppy in normal operating condition. I shut down, disconnected power cable from floppy drive, and BIOS took an extra long time to get through post on power up. Populating yast2 storage & from terminal this time took 125+ seconds. If there were any fd0 references on tty10 or in the last 40 or so lines of dmesg output I failed to spot them. Repeating once more after installing 3.11.10-0 from http://labs.suse.cz/jikos/download/bug-773058/ took ~100 seconds with floppy still unplugged. One more repeat after powering down and reconnecting floppy cable again took ~100 seconds. On 1.67GHz Athlon XP+ host kt400 running 3.11.6-4-default release kernel on 13.1/minimal X freshly updated I repeated (BIOS reported floppy fail during POST with cable removed): kernel floppy yast2StorageStartup 3.11.6-4-default connected 57 sec 3.11.6-4-default unpowered 68 sec 3.11.10-0-desktop unpowered 66 sec 3.11.10-0-desktop connected 66 sec I'm still thinking hang is limited to installation evironment. So I disconnected the floppy power cable again, and booted installation kernel/initrd (which runs an unusually terrible 791 framebuffer whether plugged into CRT or 1024x768 LCD, something common to linux kernels generally after somewhere around 3.7). At 21:59 the installation GUI initialized. Two minutes later while searching for Linux partitions was on 60%, tty2 had 10 fd0 I/O errors. At 22:08, searching for Linux partitions progress was still at 60%. Then I gave up. Please someone build a 32 bit installation kernel for 13.1 or 13.2 I can try that includes the patch applied in the comment 51 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c63 Jiri Kosina changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED CC| |jkosina@suse.com InfoProvider|jkosina@suse.com | AssignedTo|jkosina@suse.com |sbrabec@suse.com --- Comment #63 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-13 10:54:03 CET --- I have submitted RFC patch for open() returning IO error if block0 read is failing. That is a proper thing to do, and *work around* for blkid not handling read() errors properly. Once the patch is sorted out upstream, it will make it into next openSUSE release. I don't think it makes too much sense to integrate it into already released products, as the install image will not be respun anyway. blkid needs to have proper read() error handling though. Reassigning to Stanislav. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c65 --- Comment #65 from Jeff Mahoney 2014-01-13 12:24:58 EST --- Creating new installation images is pretty easy via OBS. Let me see if I can get it set up quickly. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c67 --- Comment #67 from Jiri Kosina 2014-01-16 01:39:51 CET --- (In reply to comment #66)

Actually, Jiri, can you commit the floppy fix to the 13.1 branch and I'll get that done?

That'd be very kind of you, thanks. Now pushed out into 13.1 branch (commit 8a6ca261). -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c68 --- Comment #68 from Felix Miata 2014-01-18 07:02:40 UTC --- I disconnected the floppy power cable on a different host (kt400), and booted installation kernel / http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/initrd 2014-Jan-16 23:29:39 66.9M At 01:47:30 the installation GUI reached searching for partitions/60%. Two minutes later while searching for Linux partitions was on 60%, tty4 had 9 fd0 I/O errors. 15 minutes from first seeing 60% reached, searching for Linux partitions progress was still at 60%. End test. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c70 --- Comment #70 from Felix Miata 2014-01-22 20:12:55 UTC --- I disconnected the floppy power cable again on host kt400 (AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ MHz 1674.292), and booted installation kernel / http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/initrd 21-Jan-2014 15:11 67M. At 13:43:35 the installation GUI reached searching for partitions/60%. Two minutes later while searching for Linux partitions was on 60%, tty4 had 10 fd0 I/O errors. 15 minutes from first seeing 60% reached, searching for Linux partitions progress was still at 60%. About 29 minutes after reaching 60% the next screen was finally reached (past 100%). -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c72 --- Comment #72 from Felix Miata 2014-01-23 18:27:56 UTC --- (In reply to comment #71)

Factory is not supposed to have the kernel patch now, it has been pushed out for 13.1.

To what end? If not to http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/ini... how will anyone find out if the patch solves 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c74 --- Comment #74 from Felix Miata 2014-02-01 07:34:29 UTC --- January 31 http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/initrd is definitely no better. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c76 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hare@suse.com --- Comment #76 from Jiri Kosina 2014-02-03 02:38:58 CET --- (In reply to comment #75)

Of course a shorter timeout, or even an option to manually bypass floppies, would be more satisfying IMHO.

AFAIK I cannot afford to disable floppies completely in the BIOS: I once tried but then the (Legacy GRUB) bootloader wouldn't start. (Empty black screen instead of text messages saying "Please wait" and then "Loading stage 1.5".)

Please see comment#53 for workaround that doesn't involve twiddling with BIOS. --- Comment #77 from Stanislav Brabec 2014-02-03 19:42:08 CET --- Yes, blkid does its work poorly as well. But it does not retry forever as well. It simply tries another partition table type. It does not discriminate between I/O errors and errors triggered by the fact, that supposed partition table is not valid (and causes seek attempts to invalid offset). Hannes Reinecke has an initial patch for this 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c78 --- Comment #78 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-02-04 00:00:15 CET --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (773058) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/220753 13.1 / kernel-source -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c79 --- Comment #79 from Swamp Workflow Management 2014-02-06 18:22:37 UTC --- openSUSE-SU-2014:0205-1: An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 13 fixes is now available. Category: security (important) Bug References: 733022,773058,838024,844513,845621,846529,848042,849021,850072,852652,852656,852931,853050,853051,853052,853053,854175,854722,856294,859804,860993 CVE References: CVE-2013-4511,CVE-2013-4563,CVE-2013-4587,CVE-2013-6367,CVE-2013-6368,CVE-2013-6376,CVE-2013-6432,CVE-2014-0038 Sources used: openSUSE 13.1 (src): kernel-docs-3.11.10-7.3, kernel-source-3.11.10-7.1, kernel-syms-3.11.10-7.1 -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks|862738 | -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c81 --- Comment #81 from Tony Mechelynck 2014-03-08 19:45:33 CET --- well, comment #55 or something later, I don't remember exactly, but the method was as I said: use Legacy Grub to boot copies of the patched install-kernel and install-initrd on the HD. The rest of the software was the DVD-13.1 I obtained at FOSDEM. -- 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=773058 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058#c82 --- Comment #82 from Scott Couston 2014-04-06 13:55:00 EST --- Jiri/Jeff,et al. I appreciate you do have the weight of the world on your shoulders at the moment and swamped doesn't come close to your workload. Please forgive my intrusion. My interest stems from one of the 8 duplicates against 13.1 #846001....I see 2 basic issues here This bug is against 12.3 and on NEEDINFO status!...Correct?????? NO!!!!! I suppose there are only two major question here! Has the 13.1 being the released version from http://software.opensuse.org/131/en had all the associated problems above in c#79 been fixed, as such, making the public download version actually installable? AND If not I think we either have to back it out or give DUE WARNING for public download that this release is not a stable installable download to use and just cop the flack! Otherwise the NEW bug reports are just going to keep coming and those with X_64 first timers, they will never return to us. Guys we need a decision on the above! Even little me in OZ is getting hit hard with local users tell me 13.1 just wont install!....Scott Bug References: 733022,773058,838024,844513,845621,846529,848042,849021,850072,852652,852656,852931,853050,853051,853052,853053,854175,854722,856294,859804,860993 CVE References: CVE-2013-4511,CVE-2013-4563,CVE-2013-4587,CVE-2013-6367,CVE-2013-6368,CVE-2013-6376,CVE-2013-6432,CVE-2014-0038 Sources used: openSUSE 13.1 (src): kernel-docs-3.11.10-7.3, kernel-source-3.11.10-7.1, kernel-syms-3.11.10-7.1 -- 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.