Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

2010-04-08 Thread Bruce Ward

Taking the easy question first ;-)
output of dpkg -l busybox gives:
ii  busybox1:1.10.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embedded 
system


Seems like splashy is out of the system anyway - output of dpkg -l 
splashy gives:

un  splashy (no description available)

As for trying to load "unix" I can't answer that because it does not 
appear in the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file at present. I may have 
loaded "unix" when loading modules manually - thinking it might be needed.


It is certainly a result of the local initramfs build environment that 
has caused the problem. I have created a fresh install of Debian 5.04 
using the same boot partition; the initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 that it 
produces boots my system with no problems.


I would be quite happy for you to close this bug now. We know it was 
something to do with my environment and no others, and I intend to 
reinstall with 5.04 soon.


I really appreciate the effort that has been made to solve this problem 
but I am sure there are more pressing matters.


Many thanks, Bruce

maximilian attems wrote:

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010, Bruce Ward wrote:


Hello Max.

Did you get the initramfs? I sent it 17 February.

Bruce


didn't see any trouble relevant modules are inside.

only thing that I remakred was splashy,
could you please purge that to have it out of the game?
and then update-initramfs of course.. ;)

why do you attempt to load "unix" in
/etc/initramfs-tools/modules

it is built in since very long.
although this shouldn't change the trouble..

don't get the " /bin/sleep:  not found" it is 
clearly in the initramfs. might be due a busybox bug,

which version of busybox are you running

dpkg -l busybox

thanks



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Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

2010-02-11 Thread Bruce Ward



maximilian attems wrote:

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Bruce Ward wrote:


Greetings.

More data. I have managed to get an initramfs debug out of the
system and have also provided a debug from a 2.6.26-1-686 kernel
which boots OK. I'm damned if I can see any reason from the debug
for the recent kernel (2.6.26-2-686) to fail to boot!

Interesting (but possibly not relevant) observations from my playing
around (exploration). Remember there are only a few modules (thermal
ones) loaded when the system drops out.

1. Load USB drivers - they find the pendrive, but no entry created in /dev.
2. Use mknod to create /dev/sda3 for the ext3 partition on pendrive.
sda3 is the only SCSI entry in /dev.
3. Load ext3 module, and mount the sda3 partition and, behold, there
are entries in /dev/ for sda, sda1, and sda2, as well as sda3.
4. Load the SATA drivers and suddenly there are sdb entries in /dev
for all partitions on the drive I have failed to boot from.


that points a bit to udev is it running  at this stage?
 

And more data. Attached is the list of entries in /dev at fail-time. Not 
extensive and no subdirectories. It seems that udev is doing something, 
but not enough.


Bruce

===
Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
crw-rw1 00  5,   1 Feb 12 19:12 console
crw-rw1 00 10,  63 Feb 12 19:11 cpu_dma_latency
crw-rw1 00  1,   7 Feb 12 19:11 full
crw-rw1 00 10, 228 Feb 12 19:11 hpet
crw-rw1 00  1,   2 Feb 12 19:11 kmem
crw-rw1 00  1,  11 Feb 12 19:11 kmsg
crw-rw1 00  1,   1 Feb 12 19:11 mem
crw-rw1 00 13,  63 Feb 12 19:11 mice
crw-rw1 00 10,  62 Feb 12 19:11 network_latency
crw-rw1 00 10,  61 Feb 12 19:11 network_throughput
crw-rw1 00  1,   3 Feb 12 19:11 null
crw-rw1 00  1,   4 Feb 12 19:11 port
crw-rw1 00 10,   1 Feb 12 19:11 psaux
crw-rw1 00  5,   2 Feb 12 19:11 ptmx
brw-rw1 00  1,   0 Feb 12 19:11 ram0
brw-rw1 00  1,   1 Feb 12 19:11 ram1
brw-rw1 00  1,  10 Feb 12 19:11 ram10
brw-rw1 00  1,  11 Feb 12 19:11 ram11
brw-rw1 00  1,  12 Feb 12 19:11 ram12
brw-rw1 00  1,  13 Feb 12 19:11 ram13
brw-rw1 00  1,  14 Feb 12 19:11 ram14
brw-rw1 00  1,  15 Feb 12 19:11 ram15
brw-rw1 00  1,   2 Feb 12 19:11 ram2
brw-rw1 00  1,   3 Feb 12 19:11 ram3
brw-rw1 00  1,   4 Feb 12 19:11 ram4
brw-rw1 00  1,   5 Feb 12 19:11 ram5
brw-rw1 00  1,   6 Feb 12 19:11 ram6
brw-rw1 00  1,   7 Feb 12 19:11 ram7
brw-rw1 00  1,   8 Feb 12 19:11 ram8
brw-rw1 00  1,   9 Feb 12 19:11 ram9
crw-rw1 00  1,   8 Feb 12 19:11 random
crw-rw1 00254,   0 Feb 12 19:11 rtc0
crw-rw1 00 10, 231 Feb 12 19:11 snapshot
crw-rw1 00  5,   0 Feb 12 19:11 tty
crw-rw1 00  4,   0 Feb 12 19:11 tty0
crw-rw1 00  4,   1 Feb 12 19:11 tty1
crw-rw1 00  4,  10 Feb 12 19:11 tty10
crw-rw1 00  4,  11 Feb 12 19:11 tty11
crw-rw1 00  4,  12 Feb 12 19:11 tty12
crw-rw1 00  4,  13 Feb 12 19:11 tty13
crw-rw1 00  4,  14 Feb 12 19:11 tty14
crw-rw1 00  4,  15 Feb 12 19:11 tty15
crw-rw1 00  4,  16 Feb 12 19:11 tty16
crw-rw1 00  4,  17 Feb 12 19:11 tty17
crw-rw1 00  4,  18 Feb 12 19:11 tty18
crw-rw1 00  4,  19 Feb 12 19:11 tty19
crw-rw1 00  4,   2 Feb 12 19:11 tty2
crw-rw1 00  4,  20 Feb 12 19:11 tty20
crw-rw1 00  4,  21 Feb 12 19:11 tty21
crw-rw1 00  4,  22 Feb 12 19:11 tty22
crw-rw1 00  4,  23 Feb 12 19:11 tty23
crw-rw1 00  4,  24 Feb 12 19:11 tty24
crw-rw1 00  4,  25 Feb 12 19:11 tty25
crw-rw1 00  4,  26 Feb 12 19:11 tty26
crw-rw1 00  4,  27 Feb 12 19:11 tty27
crw-rw1 00  4,  28 Feb 12 19:11 tty28
crw-rw1 00  4,  29 Feb 12 19:11 tty29
crw-rw1 00  4,   3 Feb 12 19:11 tty3
crw-rw1 00  4,  30 Feb 12 19:11 tty30
crw-rw1 00  4,  31 Feb 12 19:11 tty31
crw-rw  

Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

2010-02-11 Thread Bruce Ward



maximilian attems wrote:

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Bruce Ward wrote:


Greetings.

More data. I have managed to get an initramfs debug out of the
system and have also provided a debug from a 2.6.26-1-686 kernel
which boots OK. I'm damned if I can see any reason from the debug
for the recent kernel (2.6.26-2-686) to fail to boot!

Interesting (but possibly not relevant) observations from my playing
around (exploration). Remember there are only a few modules (thermal
ones) loaded when the system drops out.

1. Load USB drivers - they find the pendrive, but no entry created in /dev.
2. Use mknod to create /dev/sda3 for the ext3 partition on pendrive.
sda3 is the only SCSI entry in /dev.
3. Load ext3 module, and mount the sda3 partition and, behold, there
are entries in /dev/ for sda, sda1, and sda2, as well as sda3.
4. Load the SATA drivers and suddenly there are sdb entries in /dev
for all partitions on the drive I have failed to boot from.


that points a bit to udev is it running  at this stage?
 



Yes, udev is running. Attached is a ps capture as soon as I had the 
pendrive mounted.


When the boot stopped, the listing of processes stopped at PID 732. udev 
is there before running the rescue shell.


Bruce

===
Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
PID   USER COMMAND
1 0/bin/sh /init 
2 0[kthreadd]
3 0[migration/0]
4 0[ksoftirqd/0]
5 0[watchdog/0]
6 0[events/0]
7 0[khelper]
   39 0[kblockd/0]
   41 0[kacpid]
   42 0[kacpi_notify]
  149 0[kseriod]
  186 0[pdflush]
  187 0[pdflush]
  188 0[kswapd0]
  189 0[aio/0]
  396 0udevd --daemon 
  732 0/bin/sh -i 
  736 0[ksuspend_usbd]
  739 0[khubd]
  788 0[scsi_eh_0]
  789 0[usb-storage]
  842 0[kjournald]
  843 0ps 


Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

2010-02-10 Thread Bruce Ward

Greetings.

More data. I have managed to get an initramfs debug out of the system 
and have also provided a debug from a 2.6.26-1-686 kernel which boots 
OK. I'm damned if I can see any reason from the debug for the recent 
kernel (2.6.26-2-686) to fail to boot!


Interesting (but possibly not relevant) observations from my playing 
around (exploration). Remember there are only a few modules (thermal 
ones) loaded when the system drops out.


1. Load USB drivers - they find the pendrive, but no entry created in /dev.
2. Use mknod to create /dev/sda3 for the ext3 partition on pendrive. 
sda3 is the only SCSI entry in /dev.
3. Load ext3 module, and mount the sda3 partition and, behold, there are 
entries in /dev/ for sda, sda1, and sda2, as well as sda3.
4. Load the SATA drivers and suddenly there are sdb entries in /dev for 
all partitions on the drive I have failed to boot from.


A minor bug (?). ls /bin shows mknod, but trying to use it (/bin/mknod) 
gives the error:

  /bin/sh: /bin/mknod: not found

I have not tried using mknod to put the partitions in /dev/disk/by-label 
where init is expecting to find them, and then continuing the boot 
process. Would this be useful?


Does it look as though the process which is supposed to load modules is 
failing?


Bruce

===
Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
+ [ -z  ]
+ export resume=/dev/sdb6
+ depmod -a
+ maybe_break top
+ [  = top ]
+ run_scripts /scripts/init-top
+ initdir=/scripts/init-top
+ [ ! -d /scripts/init-top ]
+ get_prereqs
+ set_initlist
+ unset initlist
+ [ /scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide = /scripts/init-top/* ]
+ [ ! -x /scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide ]
+ [ -d /scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide ]
+ initlist= all_generic_ide
+ [ /scripts/init-top/framebuffer = /scripts/init-top/* ]
+ [ ! -x /scripts/init-top/framebuffer ]
+ [ -d /scripts/init-top/framebuffer ]
+ initlist= all_generic_ide framebuffer
+ [ /scripts/init-top/keymap = /scripts/init-top/* ]
+ [ ! -x /scripts/init-top/keymap ]
+ [ -d /scripts/init-top/keymap ]
+ initlist= all_generic_ide framebuffer keymap
+ /scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide prereqs
+ tmp=
+ eval array_all_generic_ide=""
+ array_all_generic_ide=
+ /scripts/init-top/framebuffer prereqs
+ tmp=
+ eval array_framebuffer=""
+ array_framebuffer=
+ /scripts/init-top/keymap prereqs
+ tmp=
+ eval array_keymap=""
+ array_keymap=
+ reduce_prereqs
+ unset runlist
+ set -- all_generic_ide framebuffer keymap
+ i=3
+ [ 3 -ne 0 ]
+ oldi=3
+ reduce_satisfied all_generic_ide
+ render array_all_generic_ide
+ eval echo -n ${array_all_generic_ide}
+ echo -n
+ deplist=
+ unset tmpdeplist
+ deplist=
+ eval array_all_generic_ide=""
+ array_all_generic_ide=
+ render array_all_generic_ide
+ eval echo -n ${array_all_generic_ide}
+ echo -n
+ count_unsatisfied
+ set --
+ return 0
+ cnt=0
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ runlist= all_generic_ide
+ pop_list_item all_generic_ide all_generic_ide framebuffer keymap
+ item=all_generic_ide
+ shift
+ set -- all_generic_ide framebuffer keymap
+ unset tmppop
+ [ all_generic_ide = all_generic_ide ]
+ continue
+ [ framebuffer = all_generic_ide ]
+ tmppop= framebuffer
+ [ keymap = all_generic_ide ]
+ tmppop= framebuffer keymap
+ initlist= framebuffer keymap
+ i=2
+ reduce_satisfied framebuffer
+ render array_framebuffer
+ eval echo -n ${array_framebuffer}
+ echo -n
+ deplist=
+ unset tmpdeplist
+ deplist=
+ pop_list_item all_generic_ide
+ item=all_generic_ide
+ shift
+ set --
+ unset tmppop
+ deplist=
+ eval array_framebuffer=""
+ array_framebuffer=
+ render array_framebuffer
+ eval echo -n ${array_framebuffer}
+ echo -n
+ count_unsatisfied
+ set --
+ return 0
+ cnt=0
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ runlist= all_generic_ide framebuffer
+ pop_list_item framebuffer framebuffer keymap
+ item=framebuffer
+ shift
+ set -- framebuffer keymap
+ unset tmppop
+ [ framebuffer = framebuffer ]
+ continue
+ [ keymap = framebuffer ]
+ tmppop= keymap
+ initlist= keymap
+ i=1
+ reduce_satisfied keymap
+ render array_keymap
+ eval echo -n ${array_keymap}
+ echo -n
+ deplist=
+ unset tmpdeplist
+ deplist=
+ pop_list_item all_generic_ide
+ item=all_generic_ide
+ shift
+ set --
+ unset tmppop
+ deplist=
+ pop_list_item framebuffer
+ item=framebuffer
+ shift
+ set --
+ unset tmppop
+ deplist=
+ eval array_keymap=""
+ array_keymap=
+ render array_keymap
+ eval echo -n ${array_keymap}
+ echo -n
+ count_unsatisfied
+ set --
+ return 0
+ cnt=0
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ runlist= all_generic_ide framebuffer keymap
+ pop_list_item keymap keymap
+ item=keymap
+ shift
+ set -- keymap
+ unset tmppop
+ [ keymap = keymap ]
+ continue
+ initlist=
+ i=0
+ [ 0 -eq 3 ]
+ [ 0 -ne 0 ]
+ call_scripts
+ [  = y ]
+ /scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide
+ [ -e /conf/param.conf ]
+ [  = y ]
+ /scripts/init-top/framebuffer
+ [ -e /conf/param.conf ]
+ [  = y ]
+ /scripts/init-top/keymap
+ [ -e /conf/param.conf ]
+ maybe_break modules
+ [  = modules ]
+ log_begin_msg Loading essential drivers
+ [ -x /sbin/uspla

Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

2010-02-10 Thread Bruce Ward

maximilian attems wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010, Bruce Ward wrote:


Here is the log from a run today.

Looking into a real initram image also created today I see that the
modules (/lib/modules/2.6.28-2-686/kernel/drivers/ ...) all have a
27 Dec. 2010 date! This is a little surprising as the modules in the
directory on the drive all have 2009 (27 Dec.) date.

Further, I was not correct in my first posting - the system DOES get to:
   Loading, please wait ...

which might put suspicion on the actual driver modules rather than
the initramfs creation.

Bruce



seen nothing suspicious at first sight, please use rootdelay bootparam
and follow http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug

thanks

Thanks for the link. I have used the 'break=' parameter but not found 
anything that looked like solving the problem.


Root device does not exist at any stage, nor do the SATA modules get 
loaded. (I've tried manual loading of all modules I thought might be 
needed but no luck.)


Root boot argument is OK - indicates that I am booting from the disc I 
expect (there are a number of discs in this machine).


I have attached the filelists from the two initrd.img files, there are a 
number of differences but I can't tell if any of them are significant.


What to try next?

With further exploration I might be able to do a debug and get the file 
onto a USB stick. (Manual loading of modules will get the system to 
recognise a pen-drive even if it will not admit the presence of any hard 
disc!)


Bruce

===
Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
..
./init
./usr
./usr/lib
./usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
./usr/lib/libdirect-1.0.so.0
./usr/lib/liblzo2.so.2
./usr/lib/libfusion-1.0.so.0
./usr/lib/libdirectfb-1.0.so.0
./usr/lib/libpcre.so.3
./usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11
./usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0
./lib
./lib/libgcc_s.so.1
./lib/libc.so.6
./lib/libcfont.so.0
./lib/libsplashycnf.so.1
./lib/libsplashy.so.1
./lib/libpthread.so.0
./lib/libm.so.6
./lib/modules
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ssb
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/hid
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/hid/hid.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/pcmcia
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/core
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/storage
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/host
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/i2o
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_core.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/fusion
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptfc.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/video
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/video/vgastate.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/video/vga16fb.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd_mod.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/legacy
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/legacy/ide-cs.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-tape.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_new.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/hpt34x.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/aec62xx.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/slc90e66.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/opti621.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/trm290.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/it821x.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/alim15x3.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/dri

Bug#551733: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Cannot boot kernel 2.6.26-2-686

2009-10-20 Thread Bruce Ward
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
Version: 2.6.26-19
Severity: important

Kernel image 2.6.26-1-686 is no problem. 2.6.26-2-686 drops me to a shell 
titled (initramfs) shortly after issuing the message:
 "Booting the kernel."
It never gets to "Loading, please wait ..."

Before I get control there are a (large) number of screen messages of the form:
 /init: line1:  /bin/sleep:  not found
and then
 "Gave up waiting for root device"
and
 "ALERT! /dev/disk/by-label/D5root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

At this stage, looking at the filesystem available in initramfs:
 there is no /dev/disk/ directory although /dev exists,
 /proc/modules contains only thermal_sys, fan, processor, and thermal,
 /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/ appears well-populated,
 /sbin contains only 7 files  (depmod, modprobe, resume, rmmod, udevadm, udevd, 
udevsettle),
 /bin/sleep exists so the multiple /init errors are not looking for /bin/sleep.

I am using GRUB (legacy) and root=LABEL statements identical to the ones which 
boot 2.6.26-1-686 without any problem. I have regenerated the initrd-img a 
number of times to no effect.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.93.2 tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 recommends:
ii  libc6-i6862.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 suggests:
ii  grub   0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn  linux-doc-2.6.26   (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-2-686:
  shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-2-686: true
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-2-686:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-2-686: false
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
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Bug#536316: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: Lenny doesn't detect blank media in IDE slave CD-RW

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Ward

Ben Hutchings wrote:

I have revived another PC running Debian 'lenny' and I can reproduce the
message 'cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!'.
However, the CD-R is still visible to user-land and some part of GNOME
prompts me to burn data or audio to it.  So I don't think this message
itself indicates a problem, and the potential fix I found was addressing
a different bug.

What is a problem, of course, is the lack of any acknowledgement of the
disc in the Plextor drive.

Please enable debugging messages by running:
echo 1 >/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/debug
Then insert a blank disc into the Plextor drive, and report the kernel
messages this produces.

To stop the debugging messages, run:
echo 0 >/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/debug

Also, please submit a separate bug report for the problems you had in
upgrading the kernel.

Ben.

  
Attached is the output from /var/log/messages after enabling cdrom 
debugging, until it was turned off. The Plextor CD-RW drive is /dev/hdd. 
The DVD-RW drive (hdc) was empty.


In this time I opened the Plextor drive, put in a blank CD, closed the 
door, waited until the drive light changed to green, opened the door and 
took out the blank CD, and closed the door.


There were no corresponding messages in /var/log/debug.

As for the kernel upgrade - no problem upgrading. I just can't use it! 
I'll try it again to record the messages I get and what I have found of 
the environment I get left in and then submit a bug report.


Thanks for your time Ben.
Bruce

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Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.856064] cdrom: entering cdrom_open
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.856076] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdc" now 1
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.856259] cdrom: entering cdrom_open
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.856264] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdd" now 1
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: entering 
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: entering 
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: entering cdrom_release
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdd" now zero
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: hdd: No DVD+RW
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: Unlocking door!
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: entering cdrom_release
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdc" now zero
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: hdc: No DVD+RW
Oct 18 19:18:15 Samarkand kernel: [357613.860029] cdrom: Unlocking door!
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.856058] cdrom: entering cdrom_open
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.856070] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdc" now 1
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.856425] cdrom: entering cdrom_open
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.856432] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdd" now 1
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: entering 
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: entering 
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: entering cdrom_release
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdd" now zero
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: hdd: No DVD+RW
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: Unlocking door!
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: entering cdrom_release
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdc" now zero
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: hdc: No DVD+RW
Oct 18 19:18:17 Samarkand kernel: [357615.860040] cdrom: Unlocking door!
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.856064] cdrom: entering cdrom_open
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.856075] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdc" now 1
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.856229] cdrom: entering cdrom_open
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.856235] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdd" now 1
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860026] cdrom: entering 
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860026] cdrom: entering 
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860026] cdrom: entering cdrom_release
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860026] cdrom: Use count for 
"/dev/hdd" now zero
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860026] cdrom: hdd: No DVD+RW
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860026] cdrom: Unlocking door!
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860027] cdrom: entering cdrom_release
Oct 18 19:18:19 Samarkand kernel: [357617.860027] cdrom: Use count for 
"/

Bug#536316: This appears to be regression from Etch

2009-08-12 Thread Bruce Ward
Further information.

Having tested this with the Plextor drive as the master and only drive
in the second IDE channel, the system still does not act on blank medium
in the drive. The drive light changes colour to indicate that it detects
a new disc; no response elsewhere.

Changed module ide_cd_mod or cd_rom?

Bruce Ward





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Bug#536316: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: Lenny doesn't detect blank media in IDE slave CD-RW

2009-07-08 Thread Bruce Ward
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26-13lenny2
Severity: important


Machine with 2 CD/DVD writers on IDE channel 2. /dev/hdc is a DVD-RW (DVDRW IDE 
H16X
); /dev/hdd is a CD-RW (PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A). Dual-booting between Etch 
(update from
Sarge) and a fresh Lenny install.

Under Etch, both drives detect a blank CD and the kernel reports
in /var/log/messages (and to a tty if using one):
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

Under Lenny, /dev/hdd fails to produce a kernel message, although the
drive light indicates that the drive has detected medium. /dev/hdc
reports in /var/log/messages:
Samarkand kernel: [  992.907877] cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
Neither drive produces a report to the user's tty. There is no problem with 
detecting audio or data discs - only blank media.

This means that the CD-RW is not available to a desktop CD-burner 
(nautilus-cd-burner) which is a regression from Etch (Linux 2.6.18-6-686 #1).

-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-13lenny2) (da...@debian.org) (gcc 
version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 
18:08:45 UTC 2009

** Command line:
root=LABEL=D5root ro quiet

** Not tainted

** Kernel log:
[   15.824977] hdb: UDMA/66 mode selected
[   15.825282] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[   16.560142] hdc: DVDRW IDE H16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[   17.344142] hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[   17.400055] hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[   17.400309] hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
[   17.400780] hdd: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
[   17.400885] hdd: UDMA/33 mode selected
[   17.400992] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[   17.404652] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[   17.505698] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[   17.509345] hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, 
CHS=16383/255/63
[   17.510097] hda: cache flushes supported
[   17.510176]  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
[   17.589531] hdb: max request size: 128KiB
[   17.589816] hdb: 20005650 sectors (10242 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=19846/16/63
[   17.589824] hdb: cache flushes not supported
[   17.589880]  hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb4
[   17.639459] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
[   17.639475] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   17.642884] hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
[   18.539949] PM: Starting manual resume from disk
[   18.592015] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   18.592015] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   19.644114] udev: starting version 140
[   19.644174] udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable 
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly
[   20.835226] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input1
[   20.857403] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[   20.860667] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[   20.860809] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input2
[   20.861021] agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
[   20.868346] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe000
[   20.892159] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   21.023161] i2c-adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c00
[   21.023201] i2c-adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x2000
[   21.143636] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   21.146781] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[   21.205236] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[   21.340248] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] enabled at IRQ 22
[   21.340258] ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:06.0[A] -> Link [APCJ] -> GSI 22 
(level, high) -> IRQ 22
[   21.340304] PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:06.0 to 64
[   21.477921] gameport: NS558 PnP Gameport is pnp00:10/gameport0, io 0x201, 
speed 59659kHz
[   21.664081] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 52555 usecs
[   21.664089] intel8x0: clocking to 47448
[   21.856194] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[   21.996091] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input4
[   22.030967] parport_pc 00:0c: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[   22.031066] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[   22.552014] Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/sdb6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 
across:1951856k
[   22.978375] EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal
[   23.220018] loop: module loaded
[   24.551424] EXT2-fs warning (device sdb1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 
filesystem as ext2
[   24.562772] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   24.562772] EXT3 FS on sdb5, internal journal
[   24.562772] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   24.576556] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   24.576556] EXT3 FS on sdb7, internal journal
[   24.576556] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   25.983490] r8169: eth0: link up
[   27.967659] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   27.968553] lo: 

CDROM regression Etch --> Lenny? Comment please.

2009-07-08 Thread Bruce Ward
Situation: 
Machine with 2 CD/DVD writers on IDE channel 2. /dev/hdc is a
DVD-RW; /dev/hdd is a CD-RW. Dual-booting between Etch (update from
Sarge) and a fresh Lenny install.

Under Etch, both drives detect a blank CD and the kernel reports
in /var/log/messages (and to a tty if using one):
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

Under Lenny, /dev/hdd fails to produce a kernel message, although the
drive light indicates that the drive has detected medium. /dev/hdc
reports in /var/log/messages:
Jul  8 21:44:53 Samarkand kernel: [  992.907877] cdrom: This disc
doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
Neither drive produces a report to the user's tty.

Problem:
1 Desktop CD-burner cannot/will not use CD-RW under Lenny
2 Lenny seems less capable of detecting blank media than Etch


Lenny kernel version (uname -a):
Linux Samarkand 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux

Before anyone asks, I have installed linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 but it
refuses to boot my system, dropping me to initramfs shell! That's
another issue :->.

Thank you folks,
Bruce Ward.


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