Bug 148240 – infinte loop on boot: rivafb_pan_display START/END

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Trevor Bowen 2006-09-19 13:29:20 UTC]

On boot-up, the kernel hits an infinite loop, endlessly alternating between the following messages:

rivafb_pan_display START
rivafb_pan_display END
...

In interactive start-up, if I skip the "consolefont" service, then start-up proceeds normally.

---

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc emacs expat fam fortran gif gpm imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libwww motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python readline reflection sdl session slang snmp spell spl ssl svga tcltk tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vhosts video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo x86 xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-10-04 08:21:45 UTC]

Is this reproducible on gentoo-sources-2.6.18?

If you boot without consolefont, and then set a font manually (e.g. run "setfont t" as root), does that trigger the problem?

[Comment 2 Trevor Bowen 2006-10-05 07:18:44 UTC]

Well, I have detatched the borrwed monitor and keyboard again, returning them to their owner.

However, I have tried to set the font using the command you suggested over an SSH session, and it worked just fine.  No error or warning messsages, and it returned almost immediately.

Do I need to try that command on the main console, or is SSH good enough?

[Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-10-09 20:05:09 UTC]

For me, setfont doesn't work unless I do it on a real terminal. Can you hang the machine by starting the consolefont service over ssh?

[Comment 4 Trevor Bowen 2006-10-09 20:38:15 UTC]

no, i could not make it hang - it started just fine over an ssh terminal:

# /etc/init.d/consolefont start
#  * Setting user font ...      [ ok ]

What else can I do to help?

[Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-10-10 05:15:55 UTC]

Next step would be looking through the /etc/init.d/consolefont script and identifying which command causes the hang. You could add some echo output in here to help determine this.

[Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-10-17 18:59:55 UTC]

Oh, it *doesn't* hang, I misread comment #4.

I think you are going to need a monitor to reproduce this again, so that you can use a "real" terminal. Please reopen when/if you're able to reproduce this again.