Bug 134138

Summary: hwinfo hangs at "block.5.1: /dev/sda geo"
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Hannes Reinecke <hare>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: snwint
Version: Alpha 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: strace logfile
dmesg output
log files from ram disk /var/log/*

Description Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-17 09:54:05 UTC 
Installation is not posssible since hwinfo hangs at "block.5.1: /dev/sda geo".
It's a PentiumII-400 system with SCSI onboard controller (ASAU P2B-S mainboard). Machine is in my office.
Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-11-17 11:11:14 UTC 
What's the last that strace says?
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-17 11:25:56 UTC 
Created attachment 57625 [details]
strace logfile
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-17 11:26:30 UTC 
open("/dev/sda", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-11-17 11:34:37 UTC 
Any interesting kernel messages at this point?

In any case, looks like a driver problem.
Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-17 11:46:27 UTC 
Created attachment 57628 [details]
dmesg output
Comment 6 Olaf Kirch 2005-11-21 09:17:09 UTC 
Looks like a broken aic7xxx driver indeed - Hannes, are you aware of any
recent changes in that area?
Comment 7 Hannes Reinecke 2005-11-22 07:51:55 UTC 
Oh, plenty of. What was the last known working version?
I think I'd better have a look at it ...
Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2005-11-22 07:54:07 UTC 
The driver of SUSE 10.0.
Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2005-12-08 03:43:23 UTC 
I'll try kotd ASAP.
Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2005-12-08 16:49:33 UTC 
kotd (2.6.15-rc5-20051207230006-default) works. Thanks!
Comment 11 Ben Phillips 2006-02-03 21:45:31 UTC 
Created attachment 66429 [details]
log files from ram disk /var/log/*