Bug 551801

Summary: OpenSuse RC2 fail to boot up!
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Component: KernelAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: dutchkind, lnogueir, matz, mweiss38
Version: RC 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 11.2   
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Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: preload.log
preload-boot.log, as requested in comment 5
preload binary
strace log of modified preload binary from previous post

Description Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 09:37:06 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #551364 +++

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; pt) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.01

Hi!

OpenSuse Final release candidate doesn't boot up on my pc. Notebook Lg S1 P222P. After "start Hal Daemon" I get a black screen and nothing more!

LG S1 P222P - C2D 7200, ATI MOBILITY X1600

Please can someone help-me! 

It's a shame I need to go back to kubuntu! :(

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 09:41:09 UTC
ok, nopreload helped in one case.

can you please boot into init 3 and then do
strace -f -o preload.log /sbin/preload /var/cache/preload/prepared

I hope that somehow stalls and then I'm interested in the end of the preload.log
Comment 2 Markus Weiss 2009-11-02 11:18:58 UTC
I did the strace of preload, and it doesn't stall, terminates in less than a second (booting into init3 with and without nopreload).
I am attaching the log for booting without nopreload.
Comment 3 Markus Weiss 2009-11-02 11:20:16 UTC
Created attachment 325103 [details]
preload.log
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 12:15:56 UTC
and you can't boot into init 5 without nopreload still? If so, you can patch /etc/init.d/boot.startpreload to use strace -f -o /tmp/preload.log where it's currently doing /usr/bin/ionice -c3 

But please add a & at the end of command then or it will be stuck much earlier :)
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 12:16:13 UTC
and you can't boot into init 5 without nopreload still? If so, you can patch /etc/init.d/boot.startpreload to use strace -f -o /tmp/preload.log where it's currently doing /usr/bin/ionice -c3 

But please add a & at the end of command then or it will be stuck much earlier :)
Comment 6 Markus Weiss 2009-11-02 14:02:46 UTC
here it comes (preload-boot.log).
A funny I notced is that now I cannot even boot into
runlevel 3 anymore without nopreload on the commandline
(this used to work yesterday). booting into RL 3 without nopreload,
the bootprocess now gets stuck at

Start Unicode mode ..done

and I have to ctrl alt del.
Comment 7 Markus Weiss 2009-11-02 14:03:34 UTC
Created attachment 325136 [details]
preload-boot.log, as requested in comment 5
Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 15:20:25 UTC
Ok, the log file doesn't really make sense to me, but at least it's something. Can you compile preload from sources btw to test some patches?
Comment 9 Markus Weiss 2009-11-02 16:31:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Ok, the log file doesn't really make sense to me, but at least it's something.
> Can you compile preload from sources btw to test some patches?

I can have a look at the sources,
no problem, it might just take me a few hours.
Just send me the patches you want me to test
Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 16:47:34 UTC
Created attachment 325155 [details]
preload binary

Please try this binary first
Comment 11 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 16:48:23 UTC
*** Bug 549619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 16:56:04 UTC
the binary is for x86_64 btw
Comment 13 Markus Weiss 2009-11-02 17:55:31 UTC
Created attachment 325165 [details]
strace log of modified preload binary from previous post

here the boot-logfile for the modified binary (x86_64 is fine for me)
The system boots to runlevel 5 correctly without "nopreload".
Comment 14 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 20:53:55 UTC
that looks much better but as you noticed yourself, the dynamic nature of preload makes it pretty hard to say it works now in general. But the differences I see in the strace make me confident
Comment 15 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-02 20:56:09 UTC
so I close it
Comment 16 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-03 12:13:42 UTC
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Comment 17 Luís Nogueira 2009-11-05 02:43:44 UTC
Hi! I'm the creator of the original bug report! https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551364

I didn't know that someone clone it! Should I expect now that it will be solved at the final 11.2 release?

Thanks!
Comment 18 Stephan Kulow 2009-11-05 06:35:08 UTC
No, it has been cloned because you have a hardware problem, while Markus had a problem that went away when rebooted often enough - and the livecd worked for him.
Comment 19 Bernhard Wiedemann 2016-04-15 10:28:34 UTC
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (551801) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/23618 Factory / preload