#1638: LiveCD fails, Hanging at "Starting init..."
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 6.2
Component: CD | Version: x86-6.1.1-3
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: init unionfs |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Many thanks for the screenshots, almost all of them are relevant. In fact,
there are too many suspicious things so that there are now too many ways
to dig.
* on screen01.jpg, you caught __call_usermodehelper (i.e., trying to call
/sbin/hotplug).
* on screen02.jpg, you caught blk_unplug_work (some block device
disappeared, huh?)
* on screen05.jpg, there is ret_from_fork (presumably, /sbin/hotplug
returned)
* on screen0{6,7}.jpg, there are three SCSI error handlers. They do match
what I have on my linux-2.6.16-ide1 system, so if there is indeed
something SCSI-related in the laptop, they are normal. But is SCSI (or USB
storage) really there? And why three devices?
So please debug further in the following order:
* Boot with the "usb-handoff" parameter
* If that doesn't help, try removing SCSI drivers and USB host
controllers from the kernel config one-by-one, rebuilding the kernel and
rebooting. The end result should be one of the following:
* SCSI is red herring here, removing all of SCSI and USB didn't help
* Driver FOO kills the boot process, let's remove it.
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