Bug 129175 – LiveCD occasionally hangs on boot time

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Manuel C. 2006-04-07 13:09:30 UTC]

LiveCD occasionally hangs on boot time when it loads the modules. It says:

"Loading modules:
Scanning for ehci-hcd... usbcore"

Then it freezes and I've to power-off my system (ctrl+alt+canc doesn't work).

I can't always reproduce this bug, it appears occasionally (with no changes to the machine).

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-10 08:24:35 UTC]

Could you tell me exactly what options you're giving at boot?

Have you tried any troubleshooting steps?

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-11 11:11:51 UTC]

*** Bug 129609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-11 11:15:05 UTC]

Please try booting with "nousb nohotplug" and see if the problem persists.

Also, once the system is booted, please give the output of lspci.  Thanks...

[Comment 4 Jeffrey H. 2006-04-11 19:21:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Please try booting with "nousb nohotplug" and see if the problem persists.

Bringing the box up "nousb nohotplug" was a bit of an adventure.  I had to dig a 9 year old ATAPI CDROM out of the boneyard, move the disc array to a pair of Promise PDC20268 cards to make room for the CDROM, plug in a PS/2 keyboard, and load the ethernet module manually.  Whew.  :-)

> Also, once the system is booted, please give the output of lspci.  Thanks...

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM)
03:03.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 02)
03:05.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 02)
03:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
03:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-21 12:11:55 UTC]

I really want to thank you for going through so much toruble.  Had I realized it would be such an endeavour, I probably wouldn't have asked.  Anyway, I can't see anything out of the ordinary that would cause this.

Try booting with this: gentoo nosmp noapic nolapic acpi=off

You can, of course, do this off your normal method.

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-08-23 08:37:45 UTC]

No response, and we have a new release coming out.  Feel free to REOPEN if there's more we can do.