Bug 32360 – gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22 results in unbootable system

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 20:35:37 UTC]

When I boot my system using gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22, it hangs here: 
 
Using local APIC timer interupts 
calibrating APIC timer ... 
..... CPU clock speed is 1469.0823 MHz 
..... host bus speed is 0.0000 MHz 
cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice: 0 
 
I have an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ in an nForce2 mobo. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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~ $ emerge info 
Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-ac4) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.22-ac4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 
-falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/
share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/
share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/
share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 
-falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" 
DISTDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox userpriv usersandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/
Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/packages-athlon-xp" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/download/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod 
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib 
directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib nas bonobo 
svga ggi tcltk java guile ruby mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl 
perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 
ldap snmp cdr scanner 3dnow 3ds acl acpi acpi4linux afs altivec amd apache2 
artswrappersuid atlas autofs bidi bindist clamav clisp cmucl cscope curl 
dedicated dga dnd doc dv dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 ethereal etwin evo expat faad 
fax fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flash gb gcl gd gd-external glut gmtfull gmthigh 
gmtsuppl gmttria gnomedb gps gstreamer gtk2 hbci icc imagemagick imap innodb 
ipalias ipv6 irmc jack javascript jbig jikes joystick junit justify kerberos 
krb4 lcd lcms ldam leim libdsk libgda lirc ltsp lucid matroska mbox mcal 
md5sum mmx mng mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozinterfaceinfo mozsvg mozxmlterm 
mpi mule music nocd nowin nviz oav objc oci8 odbc offensive ofx oldworld 
openal parse-clocks passfile pcap pcmcia pda php pic plotutils pnp ppds 
prelude psyco qhull rplay S3TC samba sasl skey slp socks5 sox sqlite src sse 
tiff transcode transparent-proxy trusted type1 usb v4l videos vim-with-x wmf 
wxwin wxwindows X509 Xaw3d xchattext xine xinerama xml xosd xvid"

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 20:36:24 UTC]

Created attachment 19994 [details]
.config

my .config

[Comment 2 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 21:46:10 UTC]

try booting with noapic and/or acpi=off and see if you get any different
results

[Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2003-10-31 01:10:57 UTC]

booting with 'noapic', 'apic=off', or 'acpi=off' still results in the kernel
hanging at the same spot with the same message...

[Comment 4 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-11-21 10:26:32 UTC]

You'll need totally disable them in the config then recompile the kernel. The nforce2 boards have a really bad acpi implementation, and the kernel chokes on it.

[Comment 5 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2003-11-21 12:07:33 UTC]

It is working fine with 2.4.22-ck2 ... I'll disable it, recompile, and let you know for gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22 and gentoo-test-sources-2.4.22-r1 soon.

[Comment 6 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2003-11-21 12:10:34 UTC]

I assume you meant apic since that is what seems to be the problem and acpi is already disabled...

[Comment 7 Anders Hellgren 2003-11-23 14:10:23 UTC]

I've experienced the same problem and can confirm that disabling the CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC option 'solves' the problem. But still, it annoys me a bit because the 2.4.20-gentoo kernels do not have this problem.

[Comment 8 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-11-30 22:14:29 UTC]

It has something to do with apic/acpi on certain boards. The nforce boards are exceptionally bad about this. There's not a whole lot I can do, I will keep my eyes peeled for any patches that look pertinent to these problems.

[Comment 9 butters 2003-12-01 10:10:46 UTC]

This bug found its way into gentoo-sources-2.4.22, renders my system unbootable.  Thought it would be better to bump this bug than create a whole new one.

[Comment 10 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-12-01 10:38:23 UTC]

see comment #8

[Comment 11 Anders Hellgren 2003-12-21 11:33:22 UTC]

This problem seems to be fixed in 2.4.22-gentoo-r2. My A7N8X Dlx boots just fine with CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y and CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y.

[Comment 12 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-12-21 15:08:45 UTC]

going to mark as fixed

[Comment 13 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-12-21 15:09:25 UTC]

marking as fixed, why does bugzilla insist on making me comment on to change the status...