[K12OSN] boot hang reproduced, Was: Another small K12LTSP 4.1.0 beta bug

[Eric Harrison]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 jam at mcquil.com wrote:

>I've had a couple of reports of this problem, but i've not yet been able 
>to reproduce it myself.

Jim, I'm able to repoduce this on my laptop.

PXE boot works fine. BOOTP via an Etherboot iso image fails with
the "/bin/dhcpdcd: already running" error. Looks like a NFS or
init issue. Will dig in further.


Here is the full text (written by hand, beware of typos ;-)


Running dhcpcd on port 67
Mounting root filesystem: /opt/ltps/i386 from: 192.168.0.254
Doing the pivot_root
Mounting the devfs filesystem
Running /sbin/init
Usage: init 0123456SoQaAaBbCcUu
VSF: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmonting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory .. failed
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed
============================================================
Running /linuxrc
Mounting /proc
linuxrc: Installing e100 driver
modprobe e100
Runnng dhcpcd on port 67

****  /bin/dhcpcd: already running
****  /bin/dhcpcd: if not then delete /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid file


-Eric

>It is correct that there is a 2nd dhcp request.  that is because the 
>bootrom doesn't pass the information to the kernel, so once the Linux 
>kernel is running, the workstation needs to make a dhcp request of its 
>own.
>
>Are you booting with PXE or Etherboot ?
>
>Jim McQuillan
>jam at Ltsp.org
>
>
>
>On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Jack wrote:
>
>> Just installed LTSP 410 and I keep running into a problem with all 3 of
>> my terminals not booting.  They boot about halfway then fail.
>> 
>> All my terminals are getting kernel panics.  All 3 fail with identical
>> errors, like so:
>> --------------------------------
>> Running /linuxrc
>> Mounting /proc
>> linuxrc: Installing e100 driver
>> modprobe e100
>> Running dhcpcd on port 67
>> 
>> **** /bin/dhcpdcd: already running
>> **** /bin/dhcpcd: if not then delete /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid file
>> 
>> ERROR! dhcpcd failed!
>> 
>> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>> <3>e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
>> --------------------------------
>> 
>> On the server side I get this in the messages log:
>> 
>> --------------------------------
>> Jul 18 03:13:30 tserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via
>> eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:31 tserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.251 to
>> 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:31 tserver dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.251
>> (192.168.0.254) from 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:31 tserver dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.251 to
>> 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:58 tserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via
>> eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:59 tserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.252 to
>> 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:59 tserver dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.252
>> (192.168.0.254) from 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:59 tserver dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.252 to
>> 00:a0:c9:75:ca:27 via eth0
>> Jul 18 03:13:59 tserver rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
>> ws252.ltsp:657 for /opt/ltsp/i386 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
>> --------------------------------
>> 
>> It looks to me like the client(terminal) is trying to get another IP for
>> some reason.  All terminals are using e100 NICs (Intel e100).  I suspect
>> this may be a problem with the Intel driver.  I'll have to try another
>> NIC but right now all three of my terminals are using Intel 100's and I
>> don't feel like ripping them apart at this moment.  Otherwise the server
>> is looks and runs great.  Thanks again guys for the great work.
>> 
>> Jack
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 02:00, jam at mcquil.com wrote:
>> > Eric,
>> > 
>> > Ok, I can take a hint :)
>> > 
>> > I've incorporated the updated build_x4_cfg script.
>> > 
>> > But, isn't there supposed to be a script that loads the usb modules too?
>> > 
>> > Jim.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> > 
>> > > 
>> > > After more pounding on the K12LTSP 4.1.0 beta 1, I found another
>> > > small bug: USB mice do not automagically work like they did in
>> > > K12LTSP 4.0.0.
>> > > 
>> > > I missed one of the patches I apply (and keep sending to Jim ;-)
>> > > that configure X to support both PS/2 & USB mice from the same
>> > > config.
>> > > 
>> > > If you have K12LTSP 4.1.0 beta 1 installed & are using USB mice,
>> > > the corrected file is attached. Save this as:
>> > > 
>> > > 	/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/build_x4_cfg
>> > > 
>> > > then make it executable:
>> > > 
>> > > 	chmod a+x /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/build_x4_cfg
>> > > 
>> > > and then all will be well.
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > I'll build new LTSP packages & resend the patch off to Jim...
>> > > 
>> > > -Eric
>> > >