Distrowatch: What went wrong with Fedora Core 4
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jul 15 01:54:48 UTC 2005
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Dave Jones wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The real question seems to me, how did this new kernel get past
> > testing if it won't even boot? Thats now
> > vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4, the matching initrd, System.map etc.
> > The .1-1369 seems to be ok if I don't want to run X.
>
>The revelation this week seems to be that the livna nvidia rpm broke
>modprobe.conf on a number of installations. Did you have this
> installed by any chance ?
What would be the full name of that rpm? There is not a livna entry
in any of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d if that helps. They are
exactly as installed.
This is an nvidia card, a 5200 something with 128 megs of ram. From an
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
5200] (rev a1)
> The number of 'my initrd broke' bugs
> that got filed over the last month or so has really gone through
> the roof, and my current bet is that this is the cause for the bulk
> (if not all) of them.
>
>The kernels that get pushed out to updates do see testing by both
>myself, and users of the updates-testing branch. However, this
> doesn't cover every possible hardware combination out there.
This board has an onboard video controller, turned off in the bios as
it eats 90% of the cpu to drive it. It doesn't show in the lspci at
all.
>So the situation is.. not all people don't test the -testing
> updates, and then some folks complain that the updates that go out
> aren't tested. There's really nothing more that I can do to get
> things tested. Some updates even spend quite a while in -testing.
> (Sometimes, I even if they've spent too long in -testing).
>
> Dave
I posted a verbatum copy of the screen in a previous message, the
error is output immediately after the 'booting the kernel' message.
The language is a bit obtuse, but I believe its because it cannot
find the hard drive(s) once the vmlinuz file is loaded and the exec
begun. Something about unknown_*****(0,0) to be inexact.
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