desktop/live cd netboot won't boot X
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
using https:/
I am somewhat able to boot the desktop live cd over pxe, but it never gets into
X or a prompt. but... if i boot into single, drop to a root propt, then run
startx, it boots into X, and then hangs.
This happens on 4 different boxes, including qemu, all of which run intrepid
just fine.
When I do it in qemu, after a min or 2 of blank display, it goes back to text
mode and I see:
m Starting bluetooth [ OK ]
Starting Network connection manager daemon: NetworkManager.
Starting Network connection manager daemon: NetworkManager
Starting GNOME Display Manager...
[ 675.386467] INFO: task loopO:2556 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 675.387060] "echo O > /proc/sys/
message.
[ 675.390675] INFO: task NetworkManager:6380 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 675.39O798] "echo O > /proc/sys/
message.
[ 675.393575] INFO: task gdm:6406 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 675.393671] "echo O > /proc/sys/
message.
The 6 lines then repeat every 120 seconds.
Steps to repo this problem:
cd /var/lib/
wget -N http://
mount
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
# /etc/exports
/var/lib/
192.168.
# /var/lib/
label ubuntu-
kernel ubuntu/
append initrd=
netboot=nfs nfsroot=
root=/dev/nfs single --
The details of my qemu setup: https:/
You can see the behavior in qemu without having to setup the pxe environment by
just loading the casper kernel into qemu:
carl@dell29:~/temp$ sudo qemu -m 400 -net tap -net nic,model=pcnet hdb.qcow2
-kernel /mnt/nfs/
-initrd /mnt/nfs/
-append "boot=casper netboot=nfs
nfsroot=
single -- "
and as a control, this works fine:
$ qemu hda.qcow2 -cdrom intrepid-
I've reproduced this; indeed, from that point I can switch to a shell prompt but can't start any processes at all, so something is badly wrong. I have no idea what's causing it, though, and the aforementioned symptom makes it rather hard to investigate ...