Bugzilla – Bug 968826
tumbleweed/leap installation leads into kernel panic
Last modified: 2017-09-12 07:37:30 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0 Build Identifier: whenever installer starts to "modprobe" the system ends in kernel panic (leap: black screen with blinking cursor at the bottom of the screen + blinking caps lock LED; tumbleweed: *** Signal 11 *** on the screen + blinking caps lock LED) Hardware: DELL XPS 15 15" UHD i7/16GB ram/512GB SSD/nVidia GTX960M/HDMI/WIFI broadcom How can I debug it more, please? Reproducible: Always
Please try "safe settings" and the other kernel parameters mentioned here: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installation_help
Broadcom WiFi might be problematic. Try to turn it off in BIOS if possible for installation.
actually there are no such options in welcome screen in leap/tumbleweed installed (I remember them from 13.2) also bios disabled wifi won't help. can I access boot logs somehow?
(In reply to Petr Vanek from comment #3) > actually there are no such options in welcome screen in leap/tumbleweed > installed (I remember them from 13.2) So 13.2 worked in the past on your system? > also bios disabled wifi won't help. > > can I access boot logs somehow? If it's not WiFi, the next possible problem is the graphics. But, I thought nouveau KMS isn't enabled during boot. In anyway, you can try "nomodeset" boot option, too.
actually this HW is new, so there was no distro running on it. I tries 13.2 and there are also no Fx options in the installer as it used to be. I just tried the latest fedora and the kernel boots into the installer out of the box. By settings nomodeset - do you mean to press 'e' in the grub on 'install' option and then add it to the line of initramfs or something similar?
Yes, on GRUB2, add your own option to the line invoking "linux" or "linuxefi". BTW is the machine Skylake? If so, could you check whether openSUSE Leap 42.1 installer works? (Not to install really, but just to see whether it continues.)
ok, so it seems it was caused by wifi driver after all. I bought usb ethernet card and installer is working. Meaning - no kernel panic now. Tested 13.2, 42.1, and Tumbleweed installers. Then there is another issue - no HDD is detected in partitioner, but it will be reported separately. BTW these Fx options are available in all installers in legacy bios mode only. Thanks for help.
Thanks for the information update. Now I wonder whether it's brcmsmac driver or b43 driver that is broken. Is WiFi chip still on your machine? If yes, could you give hwinfo --network output?
sorry, there is no linux installed yet. So I have only a windows info available. Is it enough? Name [00000001] Dell Wireless 1830 802.11ac Adapter Type Ethernet 802.3 Product Type Dell Wireless 1830 802.11ac Installed Yes PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_43BA&SUBSYS_00201028&REV_01\4&337D0347&0&00E0 Last Reset 3/5/2016 8:29 PM Index 1 Service Name BCMPCIEDHD63 Memory Address 0xDD8F8000-0xDD8FFFFF Memory Address 0xDD400000-0xDD7FFFFF IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967279 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\bcmpciedhd63.sys (1.519.0.0, 1,014.29 KB (1,038,632 bytes), 1/9/2016 11:09 AM)
I experience the same issue on an Acer Aspire R13 (R7-372T). (Namely: "tumbleweed: *** Signal 11 *** on the screen") More info on this openSuse forum thread: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/520456-***Signal-11***-while-booting-openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Snapshot20161010-Media-iso
Is this still an issue?
I will test it today afternoon with the latest Tumbleweed NET installer.
Closing due to lack of response.
I can confirm the NET installers now BOTH (Tumbleweed, Leap 42.3) work with my machine, NOT leading to *signal 11*. Sorry for the late response, thanks for the help.