Bug 784206

Summary:	Memtest86+ is broken on all of the openSUSE 12.2 installation images
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Andrew Kotsyuba <avallach2000>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	abittner
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 12.2
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Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Running test on Fujitsu D2831-S PC with DDR2 Running test on ASUS EeePC 1215B (DDR3)

Description Andrew Kotsyuba 2012-10-09 11:45:50 UTC

Created attachment 508684 [details]
Running test on Fujitsu D2831-S PC with DDR2

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1

It seems that corrupted memtest86+ binary was used when creating the installation ISO images. Here's the comparison:

Memtest86+ 4.20 from any of openSUSE 12.2 installation images (/boot/i386/loader/memtest)
> size:  176760
> mtime: Aug 24  2012 00:00
> md5:   8b140fbf85f256973bdea1c5c5e620c5

Memtest86+ 4.20 (unpacked from http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.bin.gz)
> size:  164504
> mtime: Jan 25  2011
> md5:   72789a40fa4737d6c4b8f81e56bbb450

Memtest86+ 4.20 from Arch Linux 2011.08 net-install (/arch/boot/memtest)
> size:  164504
> mtime: Aug 19  2011
> md5:   72789a40fa4737d6c4b8f81e56bbb450

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select "Memory test" from openSUSE 12.2 installation image grub menu.
2. Wait until 40-50% of the pass will be completed.
3. Memtest86+ will give an error.

Comment 1 Andrew Kotsyuba 2012-10-09 11:48:03 UTC

Created attachment 508685 [details]
Running test on ASUS EeePC 1215B (DDR3)

Comment 2 andreas bittner 2012-10-09 11:55:09 UTC

do you read most annoying bug page(s)?
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_12.2

dupe bug bugzilla #773569
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773569

Comment 3 Andrew Kotsyuba 2012-10-09 12:16:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> do you read most annoying bug page(s)?
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_12.2
> 
> dupe bug bugzilla #773569
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773569

Sorry, I did not notice this bug report (#773569). It simply was a mention of USB-boot in the bug description, so I missed it.

Thanks.

Comment 4 andreas bittner 2012-10-09 14:33:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 773569 ***