unable to install or start as live-cd daily build 22.12.09 Lucid

Hello,

I tried to build the customized live/installable CD from Lucid repos and also got the same
error when running the installation and live CD.

Thanks,

Dang

With the daily-lives build from 22-Dec-2009 21:27,

the first test to install ubuntu Lucid , it crash right after come the desktop installer.

the secound test i try are to start by cd-live without install, it load the login page and ask about a user name, when try without a name or a name it reload in round the page of login.

My third test are to try to reinstall and it loaded the installer, on the page of languages, i have selected french and the installer product a error and said that's install are breaked. It propose to retry and i do. After that it accept the install corretely.

I hope that can help for next build, sorry to have not many info about the problems but can maybe help. The important are to can install or start it as live.

At end the installation are done. I will add a file .gz that i think are the log of the installer

i hope that's the right file for the log of the installer but i don't see any others. If it's wrong please told me what add to help a maximum

I tried to rebuild the customised live/install CD from the latest
lucid repos this morning (12/23/2009) , and I no longer
see the issue with hanging at the "Starting init crypto disks ..."

The automatic installation went OK, but when running live cd,
it asked for login as indicated in starslight's message, and it
did not let me log in ...

Thanks.

Dang

Something similar to the OP's problem is happening on my machine.

If I try to boot into Lucid from the image of 23 Dec, I get as far as:

init: ureadahead-other main process (1050) terminated with status 4

followed (sometimes) by a message

udevd (1046) SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ....
}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, in /lib ....
/rules.d/56-hpmud_support.rules:10

The .... indicates where some of the message is missing because it extends beyond the edge of the screen.

Then everything locks up completely and I have to power down and up again before I can reboot.

Hello,

Now it's more bad, from recent update kubuntu Lucid don't start anymore, it hang on before login page.

I have take the last daily build of kubuntu Lucis yesterday and it's impossible to use it, this time no live-cd and no install work.

Actually there no more possible to use kubuntu anymore. About ubuntu, it was at end possible to install by desktop but still the KDM too buged .

Still cannot boot the Lucid live CD on my desktop computer. I tried with the version dated 10 January.

I tried installing Lucid using the alternate CD dated 6 January. Installation went OK, but on bootup it hung after the message: "/dev/sdb5 clean ...". On rebooting into 9.10, I found that my ethernet card wasn't working; the light on the ethernet switch was blinking slowly. Powering the PC off and on again solved that. I've had some versions of Puppy Linux do this, but never Ubuntu previously.

Lucid alpha2 image shall be released on 14th Jan. You may want to try that one to see if this bug is fixed. Please do let us know the same.

Hello Surbhi,

Thanks for your info, so i stop to test all daily lol...

I keep in touch the 14.01

Best Regards

I've just tested the alpha 2 image on my desktop PC. Unfortunately, the problem is still there.
It looks like I can't do any serious testing yet... :(

Hello,

I have tested the kubuntu alpha2 64, well there a lot of problems:

The first are when will just test as live and it a kernel panic:

Kernel panic - not syncing: Io-Apic + timer doesn't work ! boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the "noapic" option.

For the installation are not many better:

It start with :

ureadhead-other main process (1230) and (1231) terminate with status 4.

After that it seem test and crash the install, after a while it start as live and i am able to install from the desktop with the setup up.

It a bit similar of the ubuntu alpha1 early when i was only able to install by this way. If i see any others infos after the end of my installation, i will add it

Best Regards

Stars

I did a test with the alternate CD of 14 January.

I installed a command-line system only. Using recovery mode, I was able to get as far as the "resume normal boot" menu screen. However, there everything locked up. I was able to do one press of the down arrow key. If I decided instead to just press return, nothing happened.

At least it got further than last time I tried this.

There doesn't appear to be anything useful in the logfiles, unfortunately.

No improvement on the message of 2010-01-17, using the alternate CD image of 24 January and just doing a command-line install.

I got a glimpse of part of a message "NAK bailout" before the recovery menu screen covered it up.

Also, it's affecting my network hardware.

The ethernet temporarily acquires a new MAC address, ethernet address of eth1 instead of eth0, and a new IP address from the router (which thinks it's a different machine). This is a nuisance because I'm running a couple of server packages on it and it confuses the other computers on the LAN.

Turning the power off at the wall restores the address etc to normal.

Latest attempt to boot from the live CD of 30 Jan resulted in a new message:

init: ureadahead-other main process (1512) terminated with status 4
init: ureadahead-other main process (1513) terminated with status 4
could not read bytes: Broken pipe

The last line hasn't appeared previously.

daily-build from 03.02.2010 has the desktop installer fixed but still very hard to configure the installer.

Most of time after have select the config in installer, like languages, keyboard etc... i must minimize the windows and maximize to can go on the next page. After have reaped that for all action it finally do the install.

It still many default on the boot graphic and can't read all errors, one are : can't read write bytes , when it boot.

Anyway it's great to can install and test it again

I tried the image of 03.02.2010 last night (local time). I saw the blue and white band across the bottom of the screen, which I hadn't seen before, but nothing else. There was a brief flash of an error message before total lockup.

I then tried again, removing "quiet splash" from the kernel line to see if there were any interesting error messages. I noticed that this time it was able to mount the swap partition, which is the furtherest it has ever got on this machine. But it then locked up and I had to use the reset button.

I also noticed, for the first time with the live CD, that it had upset my ethernet MAC address and that I'd been assigned a different IP address by my router. I had to power the computer off completely and leave it off for a few minutes for the MAC address to go back to the original one.

So, there is progress. I'm looking forward to the day when I can install and do some real testing.

I've been trying the daily-live CD images regularly and still cannot boot as of 17 February. I've attached a screenshot in case that gives any extra information.

The changing of the ethernet MAC address is still occurring, but not on every attempt. Sometimes, the swap partition gets mounted, but again, not on every attempt.

I'd like to know if there are any kernel line options I could try to either help debug the problem or to allow me to boot to the desktop, preferably the latter.

I've added the output of lshw for this computer.

As at 5 March I'm still unable to boot the Lucid live CD. I installed a command-line system using the alternate CD. The keyboard is usable in busybox (as long as it's plugged into PS2, not USB), but once the boot gets to the login prompt, I'm unable to do anything because the keyboard is frozen, regardless of which interface I use.

At long last I'm getting log output. I've attached the syslog from one boot.

Tried booting the live CD image of 6 March. No change as far as I can determine.

I did find something interesting (maybe): if I try booting with "break=init", I get a busybox prompt, but just before it, the following appears.

stdin: error 0
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/apt/
Identifying.. [a long string of figures that I can't quite read in my cellphone photograph]
Scanning disc for index files..
Found 0 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0 signatures
W: Failed to mount '/dev/sr0' to '/media/apt'
E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian Disc or the wrong architecture?
Spawning shell within the initramfs

Busybox v1.13.3 [etc]

The "ls" command doesn't show any directory "/media/apt". There is a "/cow/media/apt", though.

I've discovered that I can boot to a desktop if I do a dist-upgrade from Karmic and boot using the Karmic kernel - that is, 2.6.31-14-generic.

I'm open to doing some testing with mainline kernels and such like.

Curiosity got the better of me. :)

Results of testing with three mainline kernels follow:

linux-image-2.6.32-020632rc1-generic_i386: does not boot. Hangs at "fsck: /dev/sdc6 clean" etc
linux-image-2.6.32-02063209-generic_i386: does not boot. Hangs at the same place
linux-image-2.6.33-020633-generic_i386: does not boot. Hangs at the same place

Upgraded to the latest Lucid kernel. I now get dumped to a command-line login, just after the "fsck: /dev/sdc6 clean ..." message.

The keyboard is still frozen, so I can't log in.

Still can't boot the latest live CD, as at Mar 10 19:50:06 UTC. Same error messages.

Neither will the installed version (unless I use the Karmic kernel).

I'll report again once the beta1 version is released.

Tried Alpha 3 and got a similar problem as described above. I cannot neither boot using a live CD nor launch the installer. I have tried with 'nomodeset' and managed to get to the end of the blue/white bar in the bottom of th screen and a message saying "could not write byte broken pipe", but my laptop hangs up after that. As I understand it is something to do with the intel video driver as I have 855GM chip.

A new error message has appeared this morning on the installed version after the latest updates:

    i2c i2c-0: sendbytes: error -110

I'm sorry to have to report that there's no change in the beta 1 release. :( :(
CD won't boot and nor will the desktop install with the proper kernel.

When I boot the desktop-installed version (with the Karmic kernel) I get a rather curious initial error message:

    mount: mounting none on /dev failed: no such device

then booting proceeds normally.

Is the system looking for something that the Karmic kernel doesn't need, but the Lucid kernel can't manage without?

Yes, I cannot boot into Lucid Live CD Beta 1. First I have to set nomodeset, but steel it freezes after a few minutes of booting. The only message I had was something about ureadahead.

I got the latest live CD build a few minutes ago.

I was able to run the "Check CD" option and everything behaved normally. This is an improvement from the last time I tried this option, when it ran as it should but nothing appeared on my screen.

Unfortunately, I still can't get the thing to boot on my desktop computer. I understand now that the "ureadahead" message isn't an error at all. However, it still gets stuck just after mounting (or trying to mount) the swap partition. I suspect that the network card has just been activated, because there is some blinking of the lights on my ethernet switch.

irihapeti, will it be possible to boot through the karmic kernel and attach the output of lspci --vvv -nn ? it will be good to see the hardware that your are trying to boot lucid on, and see what support is missing.

@Surbhi Palande

I've attached the output of "sudo lspci -vvv -nn"
I left a comment at bug 518623 because it seems to me to be very similar. I noted that there seemed to be a rather similar graphics chip involved.

Irihapeti, have you tried the option nomodeset while booting?

@foxy123, have you tried Lucid Beta? There have been fixes for intel 8x card in lucid beta. Will you check if the bug persists for you. If it does, please do attach the output of your lspci -vvv (booting from karmic or a previous distro)

@Surbhi Palande

Yes, I've tried "nomodeset". In fact, I've tried all the special boot options, apart from "Free software only".

Still not booting, using daily build of 20100329

Tried again with image 20100406.1

Freezes at the same place. Keyboard is completely non-functional.

 Two new messages have appeared:

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
   (if booted without nomodeset)

Setting sensors limits
   (if booted with nomodeset)

New kubuntu ISO testing build Kubuntu Desktop amd64 [20100406.1 have passed without any problems on VM virtualbox 3.1.6 x86 64 Swiss/French

Great new !

Best Regards

As was suggested to someone else in another bug, I'm posting the syslog from adding --verbose to the kernel line. This is from the hard disk install using kernel 2.6.32-19. Also, a screenshot taken after the system had locked up. (I don't think that this info was recorded in the logfile.)

The latest kernel, 2.6.32-20.30 - this is in the desktop install - cannot decide whether the first drive is /dev/sda or /dev/sdc, and UUID still gives a "disk by UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxx doesn't exist" error.

Can at last boot the desktop install by adding the line "blacklist viafb" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

Live CD boots to desktop if I add "viafb.modeset=0" to the boot command line. I also remove "quiet splash", because in the past I've had problems with the splash.

You guys have similar bot not necessarily identical problems.

Please check if you find at the output of

$ lspci -nn | grep VGA

And look for a line like

1) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] [1106:7205] (rev 01)
2) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] [1106:3371] (rev 01)
3) something else

You should refer to Bug #518623, Bug #539020, or file a New Bug, respectively.