[Jaunty] Powerpc live CD dumps me into busybox shell.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen]

The 20090215 daily live CD for PowerPc dumps me into a busybox shell early in the boot process. Typing "exit" at the shell prompt just gives me a new prompt. The computer is a G3 slot-loading iMac.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

When you get dropped to the busybox shell? Do you get any useful error messages?information at the top of the screen? If not, please boot the live CD, and at the yaboot prompt, type "live nosplash" and let me know if you see any useful info/errors.

Thanks.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

I get dropped into the busybox shell very early in the boot process. I have attached a photo af the messages I get after booting with "live nosplash".

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Ok, working on a fix, as I have confirmed this myself on my own hardware.

 affects ubuntu/linux-ports
 status inprogress
 assignee themuso

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

I don't know if it is related. The alternate CD stops at the partitioning step because it cannot find the driver for the IDE harddisk. It finds the IDE cdrom drive though.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Its not related, but the problem is somewhat similar. Thanks for the heads up, will have a fix for both in the next upload of the kernel, hopefully in the next day or so.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-ports - 2.6.28-2.7

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linux-ports (2.6.28-2.7) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Luke Yelavich ]

  * Disable RELOCATABLE on powerpc64-smp
    - LP: #329400
  * Turn ABI/module checking back on
  * Adjust ia64 to reduce kernel size, and increase functionality
  * add the ext4 module for Debian Installer
  * add some more IDE modules for Debian Installer
  * enable Ubuntu modules for powerpc
    - LP: #329704
  * add the dm-raid4-5 module for Debian Installer
  * fix up some differences in config for modules that should be buildable
    on all powerpc variants
  * enable maple platform support in the powerpc64-smp kernel
  * a few more ia64 configuration tweaks
  * make the Ubuntu added drbd module compile properly on powerpc
  * move rtc-ppc into the powerpc kernels
    - LP: #26658
  * re-add device-tree-compiler for powerpc again

  [ Michael Casadevall ]

  * [sparc] Prevent __LITTLE_ENDIAN from being defined in the kernel
    headers

  Rebase on top of Jaunty 2.6.28-8.24:

  [ Scott James Remnant ]

  * Change CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND to y
  * SAUCE: Link acpi-cpufreq.o first

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Build in CPU Frequency scaling drivers

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * include the kernel configuration in the sub-flavour images
    - LP: #328859

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (drop after 2.6.28) [eCryptfs] Regression in unencrypted
    filename symlinks" in favor of upstream commit.
  * Fix compile issues with qc-usb
  * SAUCE: (remove after 2.6.28) V4L/DVB (10216): saa7127: fix broken
    S-Video with saa7129
    - LP: #329267

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Subject:SAUCE: LP#193970 iwlagn: fix hw-rfkill while the interface is
    down
    - LP: #193970
  * x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
  * nbd: fix I/O hang on disconnected nbds
  * mac80211: restrict to AP in outgoing interface heuristic
  * w1: w1 temp calculation overflow fix
  * zd1211rw: adding 0ace:0xa211 as a ZD1211 device
  * zd1211rw: treat MAXIM_NEW_RF(0x08) as UW2453_RF(0x09) for TP-Link
    WN322/422G
  * parport: parport_serial, don't bind netmos ibm 0299
  * syscall define: fix uml compile bug
  * kernel-doc: fix syscall wrapper processing
  * Fix page writeback thinko, causing Berkeley DB slowdown
  * write-back: fix nr_to_write counter
  * writeback: fix break condition
  * mm: rearrange exit_mmap() to unlock before arch_exit_mmap
  * powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix mapping functions to use phys_addr_t
  * lockd: fix regression in lockd's handling of blocked locks
  * sctp: Fix crc32c calculations on big-endian arhes.
  * sctp: Correctly start rtx timer on new packet transmissions.
  * sctp: Properly timestamp outgoing data chunks for rtx purposes
  * net: Fix frag_list handling in skb_seq_read
  * net: Fix OOPS in skb_seq_read().
  * drivers/net/skfp: if !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN): inverted logic
  * ipv4: fix infinite retry loop in IP-Config
  * net: Fix userland breakage wrt. linux/if_tunnel.h
  * net: packet socket packet_lookup_frame fix
  * packet: Avoid lock_sock in mmap handler
  * sungem: Soft lockup in sungem on Netra AC200 when switching interface
    up
  * udp: Fix UDP short packet false ...

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

Reopening - the problem still persists in the 20090224.1 daily build.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

The only reason why its not fixed yet on the live CDs is that the live CD filesystem that you boot into hasn't been updated in several days. I'm looking into it.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

Thanks. Fixed in 20090227.