test 3 PXE boot hangs

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Thu Oct 4 20:36:33 UTC 2007


On 10/04/2007 04:13 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>>
>>> What is displayed on consoles 3 and 4?
>>
>> No errors.  Console 3 lists a number of modules loaded, and several
>> inserted, ending with /tmp/loop.ko.  Console 4 has normal looking
>> kernel messages ending with:
>>
>> <4>loader used greatest stack depth: 2296 bytes left
>> <6>loop: module loaded
>>
> 
> So... I left the laptop alone for a few minutes, and it eventually moved
> on.  The anaconda log is confusing.  It indicates that several modules
> were inserted seconds after loop, but those weren't printed on the
> console at that time.  The 'dmesg' output indicates:
> 
> Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -139639622012 ns)
> 
> ...immediately after "loop: module loaded".  I have no idea what this
> all means, but I'm inclined to think that the times represented in
> anaconda.log are incorrect.
> 

Kernel option "clocksource=acpi_pm" will probably fix this.

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage#common_problems






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