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Hi John, |
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noapic on the command line resolved it. Guess reading the docs several |
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times really does help. I caught that one on the third time through the |
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install.txt. |
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Cecil |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: John Davis [mailto:zhen@g.o] |
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Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:46 PM |
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To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue |
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On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:55, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> I was put in contact with John Davis about a week ago concerning an |
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> issue i'm having with the 2004.2 livecd. After some research, it |
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> appears to be a re-emergence of a previously reported problem. See |
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> bug id 42345. Initially I thought it was accessibility related (I use |
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> speakup), but the problem occurs whether or not speakup is on. |
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> |
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> Details: |
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> I have a p4 3.4 (northwood) Asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo with 1gb RAM |
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> (matched pc-3200 in a dual channel memory configuration). evga |
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> fx5900-vivo video card, Seagate s-ata (internal), and an external USB |
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> drive bay with a Maxtor 40gb hd. Sony dvd and sony cd-rw drives (hdc |
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> and hdd respectively). Upon boot with the smp kernel |
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> (2.6.7-gentoo-r11) I have an unconfigured eth0 (onboard Intel e1000 |
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> csa 82547). When I run net-setup I get a kernel panic. The |
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> "helpfull" error msg is "n interrupt not synching". I lose keyboard |
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> control, etc and only the reset button works. |
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> The 2.4.26-gentoo-r6? kernel works fine and properly configures the |
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> network adapter. I have loaded the system with 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 |
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> compiled for SMP support and other than issues relating to booting |
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> from a USB external hd, the system seems to be stable. I am however |
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> having to insmod usb-storage and rerun devfsd /dev -np in order for |
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> the hd to be recognized and root of /dev/sda1 to be loaded. At some |
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> point i'll mod the linuxrc to do this automagically. 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 |
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> is not yet functional, but this may relate to devfs/udev (i.e. user |
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> failure) and I simply haven't had time to gather all relevant |
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> information and throughly test. |
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> At this point I haven't gotten the system fully configured, but I |
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> think i'm far enough along to provide logs from the 2.6.7 boot, |
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> although logging the panic is beyond my technical skills (I make a |
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> decent monkey though, so if you tell me what to type where i'll give |
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> it a try). In particular, if I can redirect the log to my hd along |
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> with any crash dump i'm more than willing to. |
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> Regards, |
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> |
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> Cecil Whitley |
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Cecil - |
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This seems to be more of a kernel bug than anything else and I am not |
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sure if we can be of assistance. File a bug with the kernel developers |
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and see if they have anything. |
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Regards, |
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-- |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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