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Bug 59617 - Oops while booting liveCD : prints "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL !" many times
Summary: Oops while booting liveCD : prints "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL !" many times
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers
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Reported: 2004-08-06 07:12 UTC by Laurent Glaude
Modified: 2004-11-29 05:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Laurent Glaude 2004-08-06 07:12:42 UTC
While booting the 2004.2 amd64 universal liveCD, I get this error message repeated a screenful of times, and then I have to use tthe power off/on buttons to reboot the machine. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work in this case : instead, it prints more to the screen, with references about "lost ticks".

I have tried booting with the gentoo and gentoo-nofb kernels, with the same result. I have also tried the noapic boot parm without success.

I am using a Compaq Presario R3240 ( http://www.shopping.hp.com/cgi-bin/hpdirect/shopping/scripts/product_detail/product_detail_view.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1954374018.1091800724@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdhadcmeklhlhmcfngcfkmdfondfgf.0&landing=computers&category=notebooks/compaq_presario/R3000Z_series&subcat1=rts&catLevel=4&product_code=PF153UA%23ABA&tab=detailed_specs#defaultAnchor )

I can reproduce the problem 5 times out of 6.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot with amd64 universal liveCD
Actual Results:  
prints a screenful of "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL!" and freezes.

Expected Results:  
finish booting, get a root prompt
Comment 1 Laurent Glaude 2004-08-10 09:13:04 UTC
Problem can also be reproduced when booting with gentoo-smp, gentoo-smp noapic.

I have no problem booting from the SystemRescueCD version 0.2.14 (www.http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd). SystemRescueCD is based from the Gentoo liveCD.
Comment 2 Andreas Schmitt 2004-08-10 09:18:58 UTC
I also got this problem, the very strange thing is that I was able to boot two times without errors, then the third time, this appeared.

Now I tried it again and again, it doesn't stop.

I was using AMD64 2004.2 universal CD, with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor, a phoenix BIOS and a 200GB HDD.

When booting, it begins printing a couple of errors, too fast to read, and then prints "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL!" until the screen is full with this.

Now if I type anything, it doesn't appear on the screen. ALT+CTRL+DEL also doesn't work. An error message (quite long) appears; kernel problem etc.

When pressing ALT+F4, a LiveCD login appears. Here I can use ALT+CTRL+DEL to reboot.

The very strange thing, as mentioned before: It worked 2 times without any problem. Now I tried it about 20 times or more, it doesn't work, also turning all power off for about 10 minutes or so doesn't help.

The Expected Results, I also got this problem, the very strange thing is that I was able to boot two times without errors, then the third time, this appeared.

Now I tried it again and again, it doesn't stop.

I was using AMD64 2004.2 universal CD, with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor, a phoenix BIOS and a 200GB HDD.

When booting, it begins printing a couple of errors, too fast to read, and then prints "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL!" until the screen is full with this.

Now if I type anything, it doesn't appear on the screen. ALT+CTRL+DEL also doesn't work. An error message (quite long) appears; kernel problem etc.

When pressing ALT+F4, a LiveCD login appears. Here I can use ALT+CTRL+DEL to reboot.

The very strange thing, as mentioned before: It worked 2 times without any problem. Now I tried it about 20 times or more, it doesn't work, also turning all power off for about 10 minutes or so doesn't help.

The Expected results, finish booting, get a root prompt, worked 2 times, now they don't.
Comment 3 Bas Bloemsaat 2004-08-13 14:45:38 UTC
I have the same problem.
It occurs with livecd universal 2004.2. But with minimal 2004.1 it works fine, so the bug was probably introduced between 2004.1 and 2004.2
Comment 4 Laurent Glaude 2004-08-14 12:22:46 UTC
Booting with "gentoo noapic" works.
Comment 5 Laurent Glaude 2004-08-14 12:39:40 UTC
Never mind, I just reproduced it with "gentoo noapic" as well. Now it keeps doing it all the time too.
Comment 6 Rob Roland 2004-09-23 09:15:55 UTC
I have the same issue on a Dell Precision 470 (Dual Xeon 3.4 EM64T)

It did it a lot (along with "your time source seems to be instable" errors).  I had booted with gentoo-nofb noapic and it worked once, and now it doesn't seem to work.
Comment 7 Benjamin Moss 2004-10-10 09:31:17 UTC
i'm having the same problem.

AMD64 2004.2 minimal CD
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor
SATA drives
ASUS KV8
Comment 8 Ryan Stelzleni 2004-10-11 19:24:35 UTC
Same here.  Pretty much the same system as Ben Moss above, but without sata drives.
Comment 9 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-14 19:59:57 UTC
Please try the latest 2004.3 prerelease LiveCD for amd64. It's out on the mirrors in the /experimental/amd64/livecd directory. This is a bare-bones LiveCD, so a stage tarball and portage snapshot are REQUIRED.  The portage snapshot is in my devspace here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~jhuebel/2004.3-testing/

If you decide not to use the portage snapshot, then make sure you manually mark portage-2.0.51_rc9 stable or bootstrap will likely fail.
Comment 10 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-29 02:29:40 UTC
is this still an issue with 2004.3? if so, please reopen
Comment 11 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-29 05:56:27 UTC
Actually...
Comment 12 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-11-29 05:56:54 UTC
There we go.

This should be fixed.  If not, follow blubb's advice and REOPEN.