Bug 288402

Summary: insmod segfaults blocking installation
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: peter czanik <peter>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Karsten Keil <karsten.keil>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: mmarek
Version: Alpha 5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PowerPC   
OS: Other   
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Description peter czanik 2007-06-29 06:11:39 UTC 
Wanted to make a fresh install on Pegasos PPC from factory (06-28), but it failed early. Switching to F3 revealed, that insmod segfaults, so drivers for ethernet and IDE controller are not loaded.
An lsmod on F9 shows, that a few modules are still loaded (sg, st, sd_mod, sr_mod, scsi_mod, ide_cd, cdrom), but nothing any further. Failed modules for this machine are (in order of appearance):
sunrpc
loop
cpufreq_ondemand
libata
via82cxxx
echi-hcd
uhci-hcd
usb-storage
ieee1394
via-rhine
mv643xx_eth
Tried, but did not help using insmod as boot parameter to load necessary drivers.
Comment 1 peter czanik 2007-06-29 07:37:11 UTC 
I did some manual copying of messages. It does seem to be a kernel bug:

On F4, where kernel messages go, I don't see any problems:
"
Startup...
SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
"
And nothing more.
On F3 I see:
"
Remount of / ok
setfont linuxrc-16.psfu
CPU: 0, Memory 229876
insmod /modules/sunrpc.ko
sh: line 1: 684 Segmentation fault         insmod /modules/sunrpc.ko 1>&1
insmod /modules/loop.ko
sh: line 1: 694 Segmentation fault         insmod /modules/loop.ko 1>&2
insmod /modules/cpufreq_ondemand.ko
sh: line 1: 704 Segmentation fault         insmod
/modules/cpufreq_ondemand.ko 1>&2
Starting hardware detection...
Hardware detection finished.
insmod /modules/libata.ko
[...]
"
And so it goes on for the rest of the modules.
Comment 2 Andreas Schwab 2007-06-29 09:59:51 UTC 
*** Bug 288432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2007-06-29 10:01:02 UTC 
Strangely enough, loading the module via modprobe works fine.
Comment 4 Michal Marek 2007-06-29 10:36:24 UTC 
It's a bug in insmod.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 287493 ***