Bug 606728

Summary: Installation temporarily freezes and resumes after a keypress
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Jaroslaw Zachwieja <grok>
Component: KernelAssignee: Rafael Wysocki <rjw>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jeffm
Version: Milestone 6   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Attachments: lspci
lsmod
APIC + NOAPIC interrupts

Description Jaroslaw Zachwieja 2010-05-18 12:29:06 UTC
Created attachment 362919 [details]
lspci

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.5.9-0.1 Firefox/3.5.9

This is going to be a weird one.

During a network installation on HP Compaq 6005 SFF desktop the installation process intermittently stops and only resumes after a key is pressed on the usb keyboard.

I've noticed that it happens only during network activity (loading initial stages and package installation).

This particular desktop has HPET enabled, but I had to blacklist the hpet module to get it to get past Loading drivers stage.

On average, during a standard KDE desktop install, the installation needs to be prodded about 10-15 times. Obviously an unattended install becomes somewhat problematic.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jaroslaw Zachwieja 2010-05-18 12:29:42 UTC
Created attachment 362920 [details]
lsmod
Comment 2 Jaroslaw Zachwieja 2010-05-18 12:30:38 UTC
Not sure why, but despite the textmode=1 the graphical interface is still loaded. :/
Comment 3 Jaroslaw Zachwieja 2010-05-20 14:55:08 UTC
noapic seems to help.

another timer issue?
Comment 4 Rafael Wysocki 2010-05-20 22:50:57 UTC
Please attach the contents of /proc/interrupts, preferably with and without the noapic command line option (if possible).
Comment 5 Jaroslaw Zachwieja 2010-05-21 11:32:11 UTC
Created attachment 363782 [details]
APIC + NOAPIC interrupts

Booting with apic was difficult. At some point (Starting udev) it choked. Surprisingly, pressing the ACPI power button unchoked it.

During network activity (Loading Installation System (X/6)) I had to press any key on the keyboard multiple times to unchoke it.
Comment 6 Rafael Wysocki 2010-05-21 21:57:07 UTC
It looks like the kernel has general problems with setting up interrupts on your machine.

Do these problems continue after the installation?
Comment 7 Jaroslaw Zachwieja 2010-06-16 12:16:51 UTC
Hi Rafael,

Apologies for not replying earlier, there was a NEEDINFO missing.

Just installed and booted today's factory and the problem seems to be fixed.