Bug#988077: discover-data: Installation hangs when the 'discover' utility is installed.
Package: discover-data
Version: 2.2013.01.11
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
Two years ago I purchased a Qotom Q190N MiniPC and successfully installed
Debian 8.2, subsequently upgraded to 10.1. A second Qotom of the same model
purchased a few months ago fails to install, even with the latest inatallation
CD. Both hang after reporting "Installed discover (amd64)".
Further investigation revealed:
1. PCLinuxOS live disk and install also hang at what appears to be the same
point: hardware discovery.
2. Puppy Linux runs fine.
3. System Rescue CD 5.3.0 (Gentoo based) runs fine, as does the latest SRCD 7.0
(Arch based).
4. ArchBang Linux installs cleanly and runs fine.
>From this I conclude that the hardware is OK, but the Debian and PCLinuxOS
hardware discovery utilities have not yet advanced to the hardware I am using.
I believe that Debian 10.1 uses the following utilities to identify hardware:
discover (2.1.2-5.2)
discover-data (2.2010.10.18)
However, even the latest install ISO fails using updated packages:
discover_2.1.2-8_amd64.deb
discover-data_2.2013.01.11_all.deb
Hardware listing of both Qotoms reveals them to be identical apart from a minor
change in CPU stepping. The SoC is an Intel Atom Bay Trail with four Celeron
J1900 cores, and during the interim between my purchases it moved from Stepping
8 to Stepping 9. However, this resulted in a change in CPU flags which may be
the problem:
Qotom #1 unique flags: cpuid pti tsc_known_freq tsc_reliable
Qotom #2 unique flags: ibpb ibrs ida kaiser md_clear stibp
-- Package-specific info:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register [8086:0f00] (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display [8086:0f31] (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SATA AHCI Controller [8086:0f23] (rev 0e)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx, Celeron N2000 Series USB xHCI [8086:0f35] (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine [8086:0f18] (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller [8086:0f04] (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:0f48] (rev 0e)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:0f4a] (rev 0e)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:0f4c] (rev 0e)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:0f4e] (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit [8086:0f1c] (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SMBus Controller [8086:0f12] (rev 0e)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 07)
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120
Bus 001 Device 030: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 031: ID 048d:1234 Integrated Technology Express, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 036: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 037: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 038: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
loaded modules:
8086:0f31 i915
8086:0f23 ahci
8086:0f35 xhci_pci
8086:0f04 snd_hda_intel
8086:0f1c lpc_ich
8086:0f12 i2c_i801
10ec:8168 r8169
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
discover-data depends on no packages.
Versions of packages discover-data recommends:
ii pciutils 1:3.5.2-1
discover-data suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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