19075 – LiveCD 1.4_rc4 hwsetup crashes at 'Autoconfiguring devices...'

Bug 19075 - LiveCD 1.4_rc4 hwsetup crashes at 'Autoconfiguring devices...'

Summary: LiveCD 1.4_rc4 hwsetup crashes at 'Autoconfiguring devices...'

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Release Media
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Bob Johnson (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-04-10 05:31 UTC by Dafo
Modified:	2004-01-20 15:20 UTC (History)
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Description Dafo 2003-04-10 05:31:00 UTC

When booting LiveCD 1.4_rc4 on an IBM ThinkPad R30, PIII/1G, ALi15x3-based,
hwsetup crashes producing the following output:

Autoconfiguring devices... <funny rotating prompt> Oops: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c01720d9>]    Tainted: GF
EFLAGS: 00010a87
eax: c7126000   ebx: c5718230   ecx: c71261b0   edx: c889e2e4
esi: 00000000   edi: c63c0dc0   ebp: c63c0dc0   esp: c5ed7f34
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process hwsetup (pid: 3983, stackpage=c5ed7000)
Stack: c5718230 c712fba0 c0172a6a c5718230 c03331a0 c712fba0 c63c0dc0 ffffffe9 
       c77b6410 c0132818 c63c0dc0 c712fba0 00000800 c7152000 bffffe14 bffffd18 
       c013274e c7715ba0 c77b6410 00000800 c7715ba0 c77b6410 c7152000 00000003 
Call Trace:    [<c0172a6a>] [<c0132818>] [<c013274e>] [<c0132a91>] [<c0108a07>]

Code: 8b 42 14 39 de 74 0b 50 e8 16 57 fa ff 85 c0 5a 75 04 31 c0 
 /sbin/runscript.sh: line 660: 3983 Segmentation fault    hwsetup -p >/dev/null

dmesg logs some additional info just before this event:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c889e2f8
 printing eip:
c01720d9
*pde = 072a3067
*pte = 00000000


When boot process is completed, the funny rotating prompt caused by '-p' option 
of hwsetup is still alive slowly advancing console cursor to the right.
Killing hwsetup process, recovers normal cursor.



Dafo

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-10 17:03:04 UTC

ill look into this, up until now, weve been lucky to
boot this laptop.

Comment 2 Nelson Marques 2003-05-31 12:35:13 UTC

I have the same problem with my IBM ThinkPad iSeries 1200 (Model 1161-257). Even if killing the procesms, generated by the command "hwsetup -p", stops the annoying spinner, the real problem comes latter when executing "grub" command in the final steps of x86 Installation Guide. The same error hangs the probing for drivers of grub and just don't let the installation finish.

After searching the Gentoo Foruns, I just discovered this thread (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=52800&highlight=hwsetup) that didn't help as much, since I can't disable or enable my nonexistent floppy disk deriver, with the "very simple" BIOS provided by IBM for this ThinkPad model.

Comment 3 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-20 15:20:01 UTC

does 1.4 release still have this problem?