Bug#429985: marked as done (PPC installer kernel panic from libc problem)

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Date: Thu Jun 21 16:03:46 CEST 2007

Machine: Genesi Pegasos PPC ( http://www.genesippc.com/pegasos.php )
Processor: 7447/7457, altivec supported
Memory: 256MB
Partitions: Not really relevant, but here you go...
Disk /dev/hda: 40,0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: amiga
Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
 1      8225kB  1078MB  1069MB  ext2         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 2      1078MB  2147MB  1069MB  linux-swap   primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 3      2147MB  11,8GB  9656MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 4      11,8GB  21,5GB  9656MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 5      21,5GB  31,1GB  9656MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 6      31,1GB  40,0GB  8900MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
Disk /dev/hdb: 80,0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: amiga
Number  Start   End     Size     File system  Name     Flags
 1      516kB   1025MB  1024MB   linux-swap   primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 2      1025MB  20,0GB  19,0GB   reiserfs     primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 3      20,0GB  30,0GB  10,0GB   ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 4      30,0GB  40,0GB  10000MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 5      40,0GB  50,0GB  10000MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 6      50,0GB  60,0GB  10000MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 7      60,0GB  70,0GB  10000MB  ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,
 8      74,0GB  80,0GB  5991MB   ext3         primary  , , , , , , , , , , ,


Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 
MV64360/64361/64362 System Controller [11ab:6460] (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [Class 0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 
1394 Host Controller [1106:3044] (rev 46)
0000:00:05.0 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 
43)
0000:00:05.1 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 
43)
0000:00:05.2 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 [1033:00e0] 
(rev 04)
0000:00:0c.0 ISA bridge [Class 0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA 
Bridge] [1106:8231] (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.1 IDE interface [Class 0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
0000:00:0c.2 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI 
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 1e)
0000:00:0c.3 USB Controller [Class 0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI 
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 1e)
0000:00:0c.4 Bridge [Class 0680]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI 
[1106:8235] (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.5 Multimedia audio controller [Class 0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3058] (rev 40)
0000:00:0c.6 Communication controller [Class 0780]: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
AC'97 Modem Controller [1106:3068] (rev 20)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller [Class 0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 
[Rhine-II] [1106:3065] (rev 51)
0001:01:00.0 Host bridge [Class 0600]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 
MV64360/64361/64362 System Controller [11ab:6460] (rev 03)
0001:01:08.0 VGA compatible controller [Class 0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 
[Radeon 9200 PRO] [1002:5960] (rev 01)
0001:01:08.1 Display controller [Class 0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 
[Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) [1002:5940] (rev 01)



Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [E]
Detect network card:    [ ]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

Installation fails right after the kernel is booted with the following message:

/bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol: _rtld_global
Kernel panic - not syncing: attembed to kill init!
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

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On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:21, Peter Czanik wrote:
> Installation fails right after the kernel is booted with the following
> message:
> /bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol:
> _rtld_global Kernel panic - not syncing: attembed to kill init!

With today's daily images, this issue should now be fixed. It would be 
great if you could confirm that.

Note that CD images will only be fixed after the next bi-daily build, 
which should be available in about 4 hours from now.

The cause behind this issue is that there have been major changes in the 
toolchain (libc, gcc, ...) since the release of Etch which has caused the 
library reduction used when creating installer images to fail in 
different ways on different architectures. Almost all architectures have 
been affected and it has taken a fair amount of work from the D-I 
developers and various toolchain maintainers to trace and fix these 
regressions.
A relatively recent change in kernel-wedge fixed this for a number of 
architectures [1], but it sometimes takes a while for all machines that 
take care of daily builds to be updated to the latest version of packages 
used during builds.

I hope this explains the situation somewhat and we're sorry for any 
inconvenience, but on the other hand we did put up a notice some time ago 
on [1] explaining that, because of the major changes happening after the 
release of Etch, issues with daily builds are to be expected [2].


Let me also use this opportunity to remind the Debian PowerPC community 
that are still looking for people willing to get involved more in the 
installer for PowerPC and help us deal with port-specific issues.

In this case, this bug report from Peter was the first indication that 
this issue also affected powerpc (thanks for submitting the report 
Peter!).

(Please reply to the d-powerpc and d-boot mailing lists and not to the bug 
report if you'd like to respond to this last part.)

Cheers,
FJP

[1] We currently still have an issue for alpha open.
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today

P.S. For those of who are not already aware of this fact, I have resigned 
from Debian and thus as Release Manager for D-I. As there is not yet a 
new RM for D-I, I am still taking care of some areas, but that should 
diminish over the next weeks.

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