Hi
i'm forwarding this bugreport about the graphical debian installer crashing when run on a G3 powermac: usually the debian installer proved to be stable on varius PPC systems too, but in this case we couldn't fix the bug :(
Tanks a lot
Attilio
Datum: 1. Dezember 2005 15:59:59 GMT+00:00
Betreff: Bug#341597: [ppc,d-i-gtk] installation report on b&w G3
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: miniiso with graphical installer daily build from Sven Luther
Date: 2005-12-01
Machine: Apple PowerMac G3 (Blue&White)
Processor: G3, 400 MHz
Memory: 192 MB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 32-37 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 400MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 794.62
machine : PowerMac1,1
motherboard : PowerMac1,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 66 (Blue&White G3)
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 1024K unified
memory : 192MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Output of lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 02)
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RE/SG
0000:01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCILynx/PCILynx2 IEEE 1394 Link Layer Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev 07)
0000:01:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03)
0000:01:05.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O
0000:01:06.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)
Output of lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:0d.0 0604: 1011:0026 (rev 02)
0000:00:10.0 0300: 1002:5245
0000:01:00.0 0c00: 104c:8000 (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 07)
0000:01:03.0 0100: 9004:5078 (rev 03)
0000:01:05.0 ff00: 106b:0017
0000:01:06.0 0c03: 1045:c861 (rev 10)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
I booted the machine from cdrom and all seemed ok until it should start
X. Then it crashed showing a blue screen with a small garbled image in
the middle. No keyboard interaction anymore.
The next try was with "expert video=ofonly". It did not crash this time,
but it failed to start X too. Instead it tried to restart X endlessly,
showing the error message to short to read it. A colleague of mine was
able to take a picture in just the right moment, so that we could read:
(!) DirectFB/Core/NM: Panning Display failed!
--> Invalid argument
(!) [ 3163: 0.000] --> Caught signal 11 (at 0x303a9000, invalid permissions)
I could switch to the next console and cat /var/log/syslog were I read
init: Starting pid 3064, console /dev/vc/1: /sbin/debian-installer
init: Process /sbin/debian-installer (pid 3064) exited. Scheduling it for restart.
The pictures we took are available on the net:
The picture with the crashed X after normal start and the whole computer:
The X-Error message after video=ofonly:
The installation with the normal (non-graphical) mini-iso went fine, we
could initialise the network and X starts without problems.
Plese tell me how I can help to debug this issue. I will retry the
graphical installer from time to time and follow up on this bug-report.
Thanks,
Wolfi
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