Package: installation-reports
Boot method: Netinstall CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/
Date: 10-21-07
Machine: Custom
Core 2 Duo 6600
ASUS P5B
4 GB DDR2
2 * Western Digital 250GB SATA II (on Intel ICH8)
2 * Samsung Spinpoint 500GB SATA II (on Intel ICH8)
Nvidia 7600 GST
NEC PATA CDRW + DVDRW (Jmicron PATA)
NEC OPTIARC SATA DVDRW (on Promise Sata PCI card)
ACER AL 1951
Logitech RX300 PS2 mouse
iDreamKBF21B PS2 Keyboard)
Processor: Core 2 Duo 6600
Memory: 4GB
Partitions:
df -Tl is largely irrelevant because this was taken from Ubuntu with several
partitions not mounted. See fdisk -l below for more accurate information.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -Tl
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 ext3 11962224 6089696 5264872 54% /
varrun tmpfs 2018460 120 2018340 1% /var/run
varlock tmpfs 2018460 0 2018460 0% /var/lock
udev tmpfs 2018460 248 2018212 1% /dev
devshm tmpfs 2018460 0 2018460 0% /dev/shm
lrm tmpfs 2018460 38324 1980136 2%
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/sda11 xfs 41925184 1784036 40141148 5% /home
/dev/sda12 xfs 116767600 544 116767056 1% /home/jurgen/Xa
/dev/sda7 xfs 41925184 1123128 40802056 3% /home/jurgen/Mandriva
/dev/sdb13 ext3 28755548 176200 27118640 1% /home/jurgen/ExtB
/dev/sdb14 fuseblk 341565964 315270284 26295680 93% /home/jurgen/Movies
/dev/sdb7 ext3 30470144 17919272 10978112 63% /home/jurgen/Fedora
/dev/sdc2 xfs 41925184 4656 41920528 1% /home/jurgen/Develop
/dev/sdc5 xfs 41917124 548 41916576 1% /home/jurgen/Work
/dev/sdc6 xfs 131821172 548 131820624 1% /home/jurgen/Xc1
/dev/sdc7 xfs 131821172 548 131820624 1% /home/jurgen/Xc2
/dev/sdc8 xfs 139608856 544 139608312 1% /home/jurgen/Xc3
/dev/sdd3 fuseblk 47182904 67488 47115416 1% /home/jurgen/Win
/dev/sda10 ext3 4386344 959148 3204296 24% /opt
/dev/sda8 ext3 4386344 2489368 1674076 60% /var
fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 195 1566306 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 196 211 128520 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 212 768 4474102+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 769 30401 238027072+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 769 2236 11791678+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2237 2790 4449973+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2791 8012 41945683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 8013 8567 4458006 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 8568 10080 12153141 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 10081 10635 4458006 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 10636 15857 41945683+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 15858 30401 116824648+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b9191
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 132 588 3670852+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 589 784 1574370 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 785 60801 482086552+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 * 785 2350 12578832 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 2351 3003 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 3004 6919 31455238+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 8229 8245 136521 83 Linux
/dev/sdb9 8246 8767 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb10 8768 10203 11534638+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb11 10204 10725 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb12 10726 14641 31455238+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb13 14642 18278 29214171 83 Linux
/dev/sdb14 18279 60801 341565966 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00078b51
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc2 132 5353 41945715 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 5354 60801 445386060 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 5354 10574 41937651 83 Linux
/dev/sdc6 10575 26993 131885586 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 26994 43412 131885586 83 Linux
/dev/sdc8 43413 60801 139677111 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdd: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000d102
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 5222 41945683+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdd2 5223 18264 104759865 bf Solaris
/dev/sdd3 24528 30401 47182905 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdd4 18265 24527 50307547+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdd5 18265 24527 50307516 83 Linux
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub
[8086:29a0] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port
[8086:29a1] (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Contoller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev
f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface
Controller [8086:2810] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HB (ICH8) 4 port SATA
AHCI Controller [8086:2824] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
[8086:283e] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600
GS] [10de:0392] (rev a1)
02:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller [197b:2363] (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface [0101]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller [197b:2363] (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01)
05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
[1102:0008]
05:02.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA
300 TX2plus) [105a:3d73] (rev 02)
lspci -vnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub
[8086:29a0] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ea]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port
[8086:29a1] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fa700000-fe7fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000bfe00000-00000000dfdfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Contoller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at e080 [size=32]
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at febff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000dfe00000-00000000dfefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
Memory behind bridge: fe900000-fe9fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: fe800000-fe8fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at d880 [size=32]
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at febff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev
f2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fea00000-feafffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000088000000-00000000880fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface
Controller [8086:2810] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HB (ICH8) 4 port SATA
AHCI Controller [8086:2824] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
I/O ports at e880 [size=4]
I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
I/O ports at e480 [size=4]
I/O ports at e400 [size=32]
Memory at febff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
[8086:283e] (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81ec]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
Memory at 88100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256]
I/O ports at 0400 [size=32]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600
GS] [10de:0392] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:820a]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fe7e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller [197b:2363] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81e4]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fe8fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Expansion ROM at fe8e0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:00.1 IDE interface [0101]: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller [197b:2363] (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:81e4]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at ac00 [size=8]
I/O ports at a880 [size=4]
I/O ports at a800 [size=8]
I/O ports at a480 [size=4]
I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:8168]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
Memory at fe9ff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at fe9c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value
[1102:0008]
Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device [1102:1021]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at cc00 [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>
05:02.0 Mass storage controller [0180]: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA
300 TX2plus) [105a:3d73] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus)
[105a:3d73]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 23
I/O ports at c880 [size=128]
I/O ports at c400 [size=256]
Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at feac0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Expansion ROM at 88000000 [disabled] [size=32K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Please let me start by saying that he partition layout above is misguiding. I
was actually installing to sda12 (ext3 var ), sda13 (xfs /) and sda14(xfs home)
but I reformated those into one big partition as part of my attempt to overcome
the issue that I would like to report. The current layout shows only one
partition, viz. sda12, while I was installing to three.
As for the issue itself, the installer seemed to be doing fine until about 30%
into setting up the base system, it failed to chroot into /var. After several
failed attempts, I decided to reboot into Ubuntu hoping to find out from there
what was going on. It failed to boot up completely. The boot messages indicated
that it was having trouble mounting/recognizing the UUID for its own /var
partition (sda8, ext3 as well and the same size). A quick look from single mode
revealed that its /var partition was in fact empty, with the exception of a
"crash" report (I tried to cat it but that failed). Inspecting the same
partition from Fedora showed that the contents were still in sound condition.
As I had suspected, I was able to restore Ubuntu to working condition after
editing out all the UUID bits from its fstab file and replacing them with the
more traditional /dev/sdxx entries.
So, apparently, the installer mistook the Ubuntu var partition for its own,
which resulted in a failed install. It must also have taken over the original
Ubuntu var UUID in the process since single mode directed me not the actual var
partition but to the one that the installer had created.
I have not tried installing to any of the other drives so I cannot tell whether
this anomaly would be reproduced. However, I can confirm that this is reallly
the first time that I have come across this kind of issue.
