Bug 328744

Summary: YaST2 crashes with bus error during installation
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Tobias Abt <tabt>
Component: YaST2Assignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: coolo
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: openSUSE 10.3   
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Attachments: entire /var/log subtree

Description Tobias Abt 2007-09-26 22:14:22 UTC
I just tried to install (from scratch) 10.3 RC1 with additional online sources (=factory) on a system with
- AMD Athlon 64 X2
- Asus M2N-E SLI
- S-ATA HDD

Initially the installation works well, then the system reboots after installing the OS and configuring the boot loader, grub loads the kernel and initrd, the system detects that it needs further configuration, starts up YaST2 and asks for the root password. Everything seems fine so far.

Then it brings up a requester asking about network card detection and regardless whether I choose to continue or skip that part, YaST2 crashes and I get a line on the console reading:
----
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call:line 464:  4637 Bus-Zugriffsfehler    $OPT_FBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FL
AGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_ARGS
----

Then the system continues to boot and seems to be ok, albeit not properly configured.

After the next reboot, the same procedure again...

BTW, I did a similar fresh installation on the same system and setup recently with Beta1 IIRC and had no problem then with that then.
Comment 1 Tobias Abt 2007-09-26 22:35:30 UTC
I forgot one detail...

The installation was done via network boot per PXE and installation source was NFS from a local server with RC1-DVD iso image loop mounted and exported.

Just before YaST2 is started, the network is already initialized in the boot sequence and eth0 is therefore already up when YaST2 starts to look at the network cards.

I am not sure whether this makes any difference, but maybe it helps... :-)
Comment 2 Stanislav Visnovsky 2007-09-27 08:24:06 UTC
Could you, please, attach YaST logs?
Comment 3 Jiri Srain 2007-09-27 08:32:29 UTC
Could you, please, attach the logs? Ideally the logs with all debugging information. See

http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST#The_y2logs_don.27t_seem_to_show_my_problem._Can_that_logging_be_made_any_more_verbose.3F

on how to enable verbose logging.

The core dump could help as well.
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2007-09-27 08:47:14 UTC
this sounds a lot like the xfs corruption bug we saw with RC1
Comment 5 Tobias Abt 2007-09-27 14:18:36 UTC
As a matter of fact the root file system is XFS...

Before that (10.3RC1), I did not have problems with various (open-)SuSE releases and XFS on that system. I also use XFS on:
- private server (SuSE 10.0)
- Notebook ThinkPad A30p (10.0, 10.1 and 10.2)
- desktop PC at work: (was 10.1, now 10.2)
- quite a few more, less frequently used setups

Never a problem so far and good performance (especially cyrus-imapd much faster than with ext3)...

If you have some idea how to reliably detect whether it is a XFS problem, please tell me. I will have a deeper look then. Yesterday evening I could not see a problem at first glance (dmesg, /var/log/messages), but maybe I overread something.

(I will provide more info like the afore mentioned log files tonight...)
Comment 6 Tobias Abt 2007-09-27 22:29:55 UTC
Created attachment 175331 [details]
entire /var/log subtree

I included the entire /var/log to also have (the few) messages etc.
Comment 7 Tobias Abt 2007-09-28 00:04:17 UTC
Well, I had some spare empty partitions, so I made some more tests:

10.3 RC1 on XFS without online repository: same failure in same line

10.3 Beta3 on XFS without online repository: successful installation

10.3 RC1 on ext3 without online repository: successful installation

So I would concur with Stephan that it probably is the mentioned XFS bug and I would expect that it was introduced between Beta3 and RC1.

Anything else I could provide you with? :-)

Thank you!
Comment 8 Cyril Hrubis 2007-10-08 15:34:40 UTC
What's status of original xfs corruption bug? Can be this bug marked as duplicate?
Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2007-10-08 16:04:52 UTC
yes, as this is only RC1 
Comment 10 Tobias Abt 2007-10-08 22:20:30 UTC
I now did a fresh install of 10.3 GM with XFS root fs on the same system and I did not encounter that error again. It might seem as if the error is resolved IN GM.

Therefore I propose to close the bug as "fixed".