Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:25:43AM -, QuentinHartman wrote: > @Colin King: > > On my machine I have hpet, acpi_pm, jiffies, and tsc as available clock > sources. hpet seems to be the default. Here are my results using the > daily from the 21st (I think...) > > hpet: stalls > acpi_pm: stalls (

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-22 Thread QuentinHartman
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Colin King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It maybe worth booting with clocksource set to one of the alternative > clocksources available on your machine. One can see which clocksources > are available using: > > cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/availa

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:19:23PM -, Colin Watson wrote: > Derek: There's no screensaver in d-i. Screen blanking is a distant > possibility, though. The default screen blanking interval set by the > kernel is 10 minutes, and d-i doesn't change this; if the failure > happens after 10 minutes (o

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If further testing reveals that disabling the tsc actually helps, I've > prepared a kernel patch that will fix it for us: > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=soren/ubuntu- > hardy.git;a=commit;h=c472835957c7bce42c56aa2c5

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread QuentinHartman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM, davmor2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no fault on the test I just ran using the image 20080421 on > hardware. If possible could the original report please test and see if > he still has the issue with the new cd? > I am downloading the that ISO now, I wi

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:21:46AM -, Colin King wrote: > A couple of points worth mulling over to corner this one.. > > 1. Is the "hanging" a function of memory size - for example, the buffer > cache filling up after a certain amount of time and then pdflush kicking > in very aggressively doi

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 06:24:50PM -, Rick Clark wrote: > I think we can consider kvm a hardware type for these purposes. Only if the bug is in the guest kernel. This could be an issue with KVM itself, or with the host side. -- - mdz -- Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-18 Thread QuentinHartman
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So thinking much earlier in the installer, anything come to mind? > Particularly something that might have been added since Gutsy as we now > believe this is a regression? > > The only thing I can think of that should

Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

2008-04-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Current thinking is that there are probably two separate issues here: 1. A problem specific to the KVM virtual environment 2. A problem specific to a particular hardware type. As such, I've un-duped bug 217849. -- - mdz -- Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed https://bugs.la