On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:44:33PM +0200, jastra@jastra.com.pl wrote:
package: installation-reports
I can not install Debian stable neither 5.0.8 nor 6.0.1, neither
from netinst, nor from CD set.
I have tried both automatic and expert installators.
Standard problems are segmentation faults on installation of base
system in various places. I have succeeded to pass the process with
5.0.8 once, but system was not able to boot. while installing 6.0.1
netinst there is not resolved dependency problem during
configuration.
In another attempts installation just hangs with dead keyboard and
flashing together lights Caps Lock and Scroll Lock during base
system installation. Only hard reset helps.
Debian 6 live DVD gnome just hangs on not finding correct kernel
Sorry for so general description - there has been several days
attempts to install, without any success and without any reasonable
signal of hardware failure...
I am afraid, it is not hardware issue - I have just installed
Knoppix 6 on this machine without any problems
(I am writing this on this newly installed Knoppix).
It sounds a lot like bad RAM or maybe other hardware. I have seen Windows
install happily on a machine that couldn't even get past the bogomips
calibration loop on linux. Replaced the CPU and the machine worked fine.
Windows installed and ran (although crashed frequently, although the
owner of the machine didn't think that was unusual for some reason).
Software only segfaults if it has a major bug (in which case it segfaults
consistently in most cases), or if the ram or cpu is corrupting memory
(which I suspect is what you are seeing).
Machine:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) 2600+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1834.621
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips : 3670.12
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 512444 kB
MemFree: 302400 kB
Buffers: 12264 kB
Cached: 135156 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 98836 kB
Inactive: 92096 kB
Active(anon): 44780 kB
Inactive(anon): 0 kB
Active(file): 54056 kB
Inactive(file): 92096 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 512444 kB
LowFree: 302400 kB
SwapTotal: 1052248 kB
SwapFree: 1052248 kB
Dirty: 16 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 43512 kB
Mapped: 24664 kB
Shmem: 1268 kB
Slab: 12028 kB
SReclaimable: 6524 kB
SUnreclaim: 5504 kB
KernelStack: 1224 kB
PageTables: 2184 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1308468 kB
Committed_AS: 84000 kB
VmallocTotal: 507960 kB
VmallocUsed: 9752 kB
VmallocChunk: 491764 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
DirectMap4k: 12224 kB
DirectMap4M: 512000 kB
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 164.7 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 131 1052257 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 132 20023 159782490 83 Linux
lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377
[KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge [1106:3189] (rev 80)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. KT4AV motherboard (KT400A)
[1106:0000]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-via
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI
Bridge [1106:b198]
00:07.0 Network controller [0280]: AVM GmbH Fritz!PCI v2.0 ISDN
[1244:0e00] (rev 02)
Subsystem: AVM GmbH Fritz!PCI v2.0 ISDN [1244:0e00]
Kernel modules: hisax_fcpcipnp, avmfritz
00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571]
(rev 06)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0210]
Kernel driver in use: pata_via
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0210]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0210]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0210]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0210]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
[1106:3104] (rev 86)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0210]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0000]
Kernel modules: i2c-viapro
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. K8T NEO 2 motherboard
[1462:0080]
Kernel driver in use: VIA 82xx Audio
Kernel modules: snd-via82xx
00:12.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] [1106:3065] (rev 78)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:021c]
Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
Kernel modules: via-rhine
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc
Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] [1002:5159]
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Sapphire Radeon VE 7000 DDR
[174b:7c28]
Kernel modules: radeonfb
***
There is something fundamentally wrong with last time installers of
Debian stable ...
I am really diappointed - I use stable Debian at work and testing at
home...
What can I do to trace the problem?
I don't think there is anything wrong with the debian installer.
It sounds like hardware problems.
The fact knoppix boots really doesn't mean much at all. It may just be
lucky and load some data in the bad memory area and not notice that it
got corrupt.
--
Len Sorensen