Ticket #955 (assigned)

I cannot reproduce this behaviour. this should either succeed and continue, or fail (after timeout), then tell so and restart with the question wether to use DHCP or not. can you run the installer from the shell ('sudo ls-installer') and see if any relevant errors are logged to console?

The timeout does not work, and the error crashes the entire system. Where are messages from ls-install being sent? Michal and I tried syslog, but nothing was there.

you mean not just hang on this point but really crashing the system? this might indicate there is some deeper problem.. per default knoppix does no (sys)logging in live-mode. you can start syslog via KNOPPIX/service menu. errors during install or network-setup should be printed to console (if called from there) installer networksetup is modeled around knoppix's netcardconfig.. can just run 'netcardconfig' from a console and enclose returning errors/messages? as well as syslog, dmesg and output of 'lspci'?

Netcardconfig, when run in sudo, results in the same error, bringing down the entire system and blocking the network card. Has anything changed with netcardconfig since the first Install CD? Because it crashes the system and the network card, I can't even report the outputs of lspci, etc.

By the way, does ls-installer output messages? If so, where are they?

Here is the output from dmesg after booting: ============ root@1[~]# dmesg OS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 00000000000dc014 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003fff8000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000fc0f0 On node 0 totalpages: 262128 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem? zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa3a0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT INTEL865 0x00000010 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT INTEL865 0x00000011 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff0030 ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT INTEL865 0x00000009 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3fff00c0 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL I865G 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init alsa splash lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux iounmap: bad address c00fffd9 mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 3001.221 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 1033336k/1048512k available (1829k kernel code, 14460k reserved, 924k data, 296k init, 131008k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 5947.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=2973696) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 01 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 2925.05 usecs. task migration cache decay timeout: 3 msecs. Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay loop... 5996.54 BogoMIPS (lpj=2998272) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 1024K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 01 Total of 2 processors activated (11943.93 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed. Brought up 2 CPUs CPU0 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 00000003 groups: 00000001 00000002 CPU1 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 00000003 groups: 00000002 00000001 checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1046k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.ICHB._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP SCSI subsystem initialized PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this ** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the ** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary ** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old ** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again, ** please email the output of "lspci" to [email protected] ** so I can fix the driver. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1116260646.624:0): initialized highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3072k, total 65536k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e4a0 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found ACPI: PS/2 Keyboard Controller [PS2K] at I/O 0x60, 0x64, irq 1 ACPI: PS/2 Mouse Controller [PS2M] at irq 12 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ICH5: chipset revision 2 ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: TEAC DV-516G, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63 hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 254kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 libata version 1.10 loaded. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0 EISA: Detected 0 cards. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 15 Starting balanced_irq ACPI wakeup devices: USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 EHCI ICHB PS2M PS2K MC9 ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). seagate: ST0x/TMC-8xx not detected. Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, pci mem 0xfebffc00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ub: sizeof ub_scsi_cmd 64 ub_dev 2504 usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usbcore: registered new driver ub Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <[email protected]> ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1) Vendor: SONY Model: DVD RW DRU-530A Rev: 1.0d Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. Unable to identify CD-ROM format. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda. FAT: bogus number of FAT structure VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda. ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A cloop: Initializing cloop v2.02 cloop: loaded (max 8 devices) cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 24984 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes. ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Registering unionfs version $Id: main.c,v 1.82 2005/02/08 15:17:38 cwright Exp$ Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed Generic RTC Driver v1.07 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states) ACPI: Processor [CPU2] (supports 8 throttling states) Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0xcc00 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0xd000 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0xd400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0xd800 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 14 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA] Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 hw_random: RNG not detected ichxrom: ichxrom_init_one(): Unable to register resource 0xffb80000-0xffffffff- kernel bug? CFI: Found no ichxrom @fff80000 device at location zero JEDEC: Found no ichxrom @fff80000 device at location zero CFI: Found no ichxrom @fff80000 device at location zero JEDEC: Found no ichxrom @fff80000 device at location zero CFI: Found no ichxrom @fff80000 device at location zero Found: SST 49LF004B ichxrom @fff80000: Found 1 x8 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank using fwh lock/unlock method number of JEDEC chips: 1 cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend- program due to code brokenness. r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.6LK loaded ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'. eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8bdcf00, 00:11:09:c7:d5:5c, IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49925 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 PCI: 0000:02:03.0 has unsupported PM cap regs version (1) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 Adding 2096440k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1 EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds r8169: eth0: link up NET: Registered protocol family 17 r8169: eth0: link up apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. root@1[~]#

here is the output of lspci. ========================== root@1[~]# lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1) 0000:02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS 0000:02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03) 0000:02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) root@1[~]#

no. netcardconfig did not change. and I succesfully tested this on 3 machines... I would say we have a problem of hardware compatibility, IRQ routing or similiar configurations ... (and bug #953 is most likely to part of it as well) to track this further down, would you try to: - turn of plug and play in BIOS and try again.. - boot with 'knoppix noacpi' and see if works. - boot with 'failsafe 2' (and run netcardconfig on console)

The noacpi option didn't help.

Failsafe 2 also did not work, and a combination of 'noacpi' and 'failsafe 2' did nothing. Netcardconfig still hangs.

Booting with the parameter 'knoppix nodhcp' seems to have solved the problem; the installation went ahead fine after that when it tried to invoke netcardconfig. But it's a bit of a mystery still as to _why_ it didn't work.

this is indeed strange, - 'failsafe' actually already implied 'nodhcp' so should therefore be working as well.. - did your try with plug and play turned off? (it's common error source for linux at least before kernel 2.6 time ..) - browsing knoppix forums, I found there are some (more or less untracked) bugs in this knoppix/kernel version with some network cards...

To be honest, I couldn't find where to turn off plug and play in the bios, so I left it as it was.

Can you test on another system or network adapter to verify this is normally working, therefore a problem of specific network adapters / hw-setup? and set severity accourding to this?