Bug 5979

Created attachment 2341 [details]
report.bug.gz from this installtion

Created attachment 2342 [details]
ddebug.log from this installation

I see 

* ERROR: killing runaway process (process=blkid, pid=4281, args=-o udev -p /dev/fd0, error=ALARM at /usr/lib/libDrakX/run_program.pm line 99.
)

for me it's seems a duplicate of https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4696
norbert, try this https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4696#c10

and for the errors it seems the nvidia crash...

thierry an idea maybe ?

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: may X-system install I add ddebug.log and report.bug.gz as attachement => (none)
Severity: normal => major

Thomas ping:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4696#c12
I'm thinking of patching kernel like fedora so it stops to autoload floppy
everytime it finds the pnp headers

Priority: Normal => release_blocker
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

@ Thierry
@ Thomas

I was about to close this bug as invalid, but I'll leave it open now, because it seems TV discovered something.

The reason for wanting to close it, is:


    Norbert solved the problem

    When he bought the pc, the DVD station was set to ATA-master, but he wasn't
    aware, because he never had any problems, not even while installing with the
    Mageia 2 pre final i586 DVD.

    Trying to figure out why installing with the X86_64 DVD gave so much trouble,
    he saw the jumper was set to ATA-master, that struck him as weird, so he
    changed it to ATA-slave and all problems were gone.

CC: (none) => marja11

(In reply to comment #4)
> Thomas ping:
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4696#c12
> I'm thinking of patching kernel like fedora so it stops to autoload floppy
> everytime it finds the pnp headers

ALready so for ~1 month...
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/kernel/current/PATCHES/patches/block-floppy-disable-pnp-modalias.patch?view=markup

in ddebug.log I see:
* running: blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdg1
* blkid gave: vfat  
* running: /sbin/insmod /tmp/floppy.ko

Humm
We need to load floopy.ko in order to detect whether there's a floppy drive or not.

We later try to get magic from fses, using blkid.
As /dev/fd0 seems to exist, we run it on it.

blkid should not block like this for more than 10mn.
Maybe should we set a 30s timeout for blkid...

Priority: release_blocker => Normal

Created attachment 2348 [details]
reduce blkid timeout to 30s

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Changing summary to 

"set a 30s timeout for blkid"

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Summary: Pre 2 Final Install hangs, give gives an error message, Ok, works on, gives an error, message, OK, works on an ends with an Cauldron without can start KDE => set a 30s timeout for blkid

This is already done in cauldron

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED