Bug#404972: Minor problems with Notebook HP nc 6000
Package: installation-reports
Severity: minor
This installation was done with the business-card daily-build for today
(Dec 29th), it went quite fine, but some things didn't behave as expected,
and thus I'm filing this report.
Boot method: business-card CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso
Date: Dec 29th, 2006
Machine: HP nc 6000
Processor: Intel Centrino 1.5 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Partitions:
df -Tl:
/dev/hda2 ext3 8783824 1734852 6602768 21% /
tmpfs tmpfs 258372 0 258372 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10240 68 10172 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 258372 0 258372 0% /dev/shm
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 58920 29695648+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 * 58921 76628 8924107+ 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 76628 77520 449820 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 76628 77520 449788+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Output of lspci -nn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP
Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M)
USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
[8086:2448] (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC
Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE
Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation
82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5]
(rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350
[Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
02:04.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
3B Mini PCI Adapter [8086:1043] (rev 04)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1
MemoryCardBus Controller [1217:7223]
02:06.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1
MemoryCardBus Controller [1217:7223]
02:06.2 System peripheral [0880]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1
MemoryCardBus Accelerator [1217:7110]
02:06.3 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M3/MC3 4-in-1
MemoryCardBus Controller [1217:7223]
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5705M_2 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165e] (rev 03)
(I'm skipping the lspci -vnn since nothing went that wrong).
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [*]
Detect hard drives: [*]
Partition hard drives: [*]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [*]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
The "Detect hard drives" and "Partition hard drives" steps completed ok,
but in the middle were REALLY slow, with no process bar in the case of the
"Detect hard drives".
The syslog that was shown during this long wait was this:
Dec 29 14:31:27 main-menu[1380]: INFO: Menu item 'disk-detect' selected
Dec 29 14:31:28 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface eth0
Dec 29 14:31:28 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface lo
Dec 29 14:31:28 hw-detect: PCMCIA bridge driver already present in kernel
Dec 29 14:31:28 hw-detect: Missing modules 'ide-mod (Linux IDE driver),
ide-probe-mod (Linux IDE probe driver), ide-detect (Linux IDE detection),
ide-floppy (Linux IDE floppy)
Dec 29 14:31:28 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface eth0
Dec 29 14:31:28 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network
interface lo
Dec 29 14:32:08 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Dec 29 14:32:46 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
And
Dec 29 14:32:47 main-menu[1380]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected
Dec 29 14:32:47 kernel: JFS: nTxBlock = 4037, nTxLock = 32303
Dec 29 14:32:48 kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime,
large block numbers, no debug enabled
Dec 29 14:32:48 kernel: SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Dec 29 14:33:26 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Dec 29 14:34:04 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Dec 29 14:34:04 partman: No matching physical volumes found
Dec 29 14:34:04 partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a
while...
Dec 29 14:34:04 partman: No volume groups found
In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think is that it
had troubles with that. This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I
guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out.
It's a bit frustrating to have to wait for a long time when nothing is
happening underneath.
**
About the "install tasks" part, I find it a bit problematic that there is
no way to stop it and go back. I had selected "Desktop Environment" and
"Laptop utilities" (or something, it was in Spanish), and then regretted
the Desktop thing, because it implied a lot of packages, and I had no way
at all to stop it and change it.
**
On a previous try, I had selected one of the Argentinian mirrors (I
suggest removing both of them, since neither of them are updated
nor reliable, or at least asking them to be more reliable if you are going
to include them in the release), and it didn't work fine.
Before selecting the mirrors, I had been playing with the menus a bit, and
had finally set the debconf priority on "high", so that I would get the
"normal user" experience, this seems to have caused a lot of trouble.
When d-i started downloading base packages (aptitude, debootstrap, etc),
the packages did not meet the md5sums, or gave 404 errors and so on. I was
prompted many times about this, and had two buttons "Continue" or "Go
Back". I tried the "Go Back" many times, but it didn't go back. And the
"Continue" continued, but the packages were stil corrupt.
So, apparently, if someone sets the priority at "high" manually, and an
error occurs, there's no way of going back.
This smells like a bug to me, but I know that a normal user wouldn't have
done what I did, so it's not a very important bug.
**
That's it. To be fair, the installer worked really really fine. I'm just
filing this bug to try to make it even better. Nothing here is important.
You've all done a great job. Thanks for d-i!
Love,
Marga.
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