Dapper flight 5: Installation hangs at formating harddisk progress

[Benjamin Kuhnert]

Hi Ubuntu team,

i've tried to install dapper flight 5 on my workstation, but the installation stucked at the formating progress. I've noticed two different behaviours at the installation:

first one:

1. boot from cd "Install to the harddisk"
2. select language and keyboard settings to german
3. setup network with dhcp
4. partitioning setup:
   -> harddisk 1: 3 partitions, first is "/" (ext3), second is swap, third is data (ext3)
   -> harddisk 2: 3 windows partitions, first is ntfs, second is ntfs, third is fat32
5. accept to format the first and second partition of the first harddisk (other partitions remain)
6. format progress bar loads to 100% and hangs (no harddisk activities)

second one:

-> all steps from the first one but...
-> ...format progress bar finished at 100% and disappears
-> the blue screen remains and nothing happens then (no harddisk activities )

A look in the dmesg output shows the error message that appears every 10-20 seconds.

"[4294898.494000] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24"

In both cases i'm not able to restart the pc with CRTL+ALT+DEL. After that i boot the pc with the cd into a shell and tried to setup the partitions by hand. I've noticed the same behavior (and error messages) by running the "mkfs.ext3" command. Perhaps it's an driver issue.

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Hardware:

- AMD Spempron 2500+
- 1280MB DDR memory (1x 1024, 1x 256)
- MSI K8NGM-V Mainboard with NFORCE410 and NVIDIA C51G Chipset (USB, network, sata, pcie)
- pcie Geforce GT 6600
- Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2
- Samsung IDE DVD-RW drive
- 80Gb Samsung SATA2 HD080HJ drive (first boot drive)
 -> 1 partition (ext3), 1 partition (swap), 1 partition (ext3)
- 80Gb Maxtor 4D060H3 IDE drive
 -> 2 partitions (windows ntfs), 1 partition (fat32)

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dmesg:

48576 bytes)
[4294669.706000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[4294669.706000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
[4294669.706000] TCP reno registered
[4294669.707000] TCP bic registered
[4294669.707000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[4294669.707000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[4294669.707000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[4294669.707000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[4294669.707000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[4294669.740000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[4294670.249000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[4294670.250000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
[4294670.251000] sata_nv 0000:00:0e.0: version 0.8
[4294670.251000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64
[4294670.251000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xD482 bmdma 0xD000 irq 5
[4294670.251000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD400 ctl 0xD082 bmdma 0xD008 irq 5
[4294670.297000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[4294670.349000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[4294670.349000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[4294670.350000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
[4294670.350000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
[4294670.350000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: OHCI Host Controller
[4294670.350000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[4294670.350000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: irq 5, io mem 0xf7fbe000
[4294670.408000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.408000] hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[4294670.542000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.1 to 64
[4294670.542000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: EHCI Host Controller
[4294670.542000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: debug port 1
[4294670.542000] PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:0b.1
[4294670.542000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[4294670.542000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: irq 7, io mem 0xf7fbfc00
[4294670.542000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[4294670.542000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.542000] hub 2-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[4294670.622000] ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:40ff
[4294670.622000] ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 156301488 sectors: LBA48
[4294670.622000] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
[4294670.622000] scsi0 : sata_nv
[4294670.823000] ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
[4294670.823000] scsi1 : sata_nv
[4294670.823000] Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ Rev: ZH10
[4294670.823000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[4294670.830000] NFORCE-MCP51: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0d.0
[4294670.830000] NFORCE-MCP51: chipset revision 161
[4294670.830000] NFORCE-MCP51: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[4294670.830000] NFORCE-MCP51: 0000:00:0d.0 (rev a1) UDMA133 controller
[4294670.830000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[4294670.830000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
[4294670.830000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294670.839000] ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <email address hidden>
[4294670.890000] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO=[febff800-febfffff] Max Packet=[2048]
[4294670.923000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
[4294670.923000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[4294670.932000] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
[4294670.932000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[4294670.932000] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[4294670.956000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[4294670.959000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[4294671.094000] hda: Maxtor 4D060H3, ATA DISK drive
[4294671.296000] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[4294671.663000] usb 1-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[4294671.706000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[4294671.706000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[4294671.811000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[4294672.146000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023c009101f149]
[4294672.378000] hdc: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[4294672.990000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[4294672.995000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[4294673.002000] hda: 120069936 sectors (61475 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[4294673.002000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[4294673.002000] hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
[4294673.044000] hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[4294673.045000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[4294681.822000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: timeout initializing reports
[4294681.822000]
[4294681.822000] input: Logitech Inc. iFeel Mouse as /class/input/input1
[4294681.822000] input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Logitech Inc. iFeel Mouse ] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-2
[4294681.822000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
[4294681.822000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[4294682.525000] usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
[4294682.525000] drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
[4294682.539000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
[4294682.539000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[4294682.540000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
[4294682.540000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
[4294682.816000] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xf8a00000, using 3750k, total 131072k
[4294682.817000] vesafb: mode is 800x600x32, linelength=3200, pages=1
[4294682.817000] vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:d6b0
[4294682.817000] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
[4294682.817000] vesafb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
[4294682.817000] vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible
[4294682.817000] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
[4294682.839000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
[4294699.785000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[4294699.785000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[4294699.786000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4294702.839000] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[4294703.863000] ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
[4294703.999000] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <email address hidden>
[4294704.000000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[4294704.000000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[4294704.245000] Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
[4294708.671000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[4294708.735000] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[4294726.422000] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48.
[4294726.422000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.0 to 64
[4294726.934000] eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01462:7228 bound to 0000:00:14.0
[4294730.558000] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[4294730.783000] Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
[4294736.048000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[4294816.654000] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[4294816.877000] Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
[4294822.627000] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
[4294822.786000] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
[4294822.786000] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[4294859.939000] Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1052248k
[4294898.494000] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
[4294928.500000] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24

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ps -ax: (setup hangs at this time)

  PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
    1 root 448 S init
    2 root SWN [ksoftirqd/0]
    3 root SW [watchdog/0]
    4 root SW< [events/0]
    5 root SW< [khelper]
    6 root SW< [kthread]
    8 root SW< [kblockd/0]
   90 root SW [pdflush]
   92 root SW [kswapd0]
   93 root SW< [aio/0]
  687 root SW< [kseriod]
  795 root 360 S < udevd --daemon
 1484 root SW< [ata/0]
 1485 root SW< [scsi_eh_0]
 1486 root SW< [scsi_eh_1]
 1511 root SW< [khubd]
 1497 root SW [khpsbpkt]
 1597 root SW [knodemgrd_0]
 1833 root 356 S /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /var/log/syslog -S
 1836 root 344 S /sbin/klogd -c 2
 2108 root 472 S /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer
 2116 root 332 S /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
 2119 root 336 S /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog
 2122 root 668 R /bin/sh
 2176 root 720 S /usr/bin/bterm -f /lib/unifont.bgf -l C.UTF-8 /lib/debian-installer/menu
 2177 root 9900 S debconf -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu
 2178 root 572 S /usr/bin/main-menu
15370 root 616 S udpkg --configure --force-configure partman-base
15371 root 496 S /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/partman-base.postinst configure
15372 root 664 S /bin/sh /bin/partman
15769 root SW [jfsIO]
15770 root SW [jfsCommit]
15771 root SW [jfsSync]
15936 root SW< [xfslogd/0]
15937 root SW< [xfsdatad/0]
15938 root SW< [xfsbufd]
15979 root 852 S parted_server
23894 root 636 S /bin/sh /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3
24624 root SW [pdflush]
24632 root 404 S log-output -t partman --pass-stdout /sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/sda1
24633 root 1356 D /sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/sda1
24642 root 540 R ps -ax

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lsmod:

Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 4224 1
xfs 589656 0
exportfs 6272 1 xfs
reiserfs 268016 0
jfs 195780 0
ext3 135688 0
jbd 58772 1 ext3
vfat 13440 1
fat 53020 1 vfat
ext2 68360 0
af_packet 22920 2
forcedeth 23556 0
nls_cp437 5888 2
rsrc_nonstatic 13440 0
pcmcia_core 42640 1 rsrc_nonstatic
sr_mod 16932 0
sbp2 24196 0
isofs 37688 1
ide_floppy 19328 0
ide_generic 1536 0
pdc202xx_new 9600 0
aec62xx 7936 0
alim15x3 12428 0 [permanent]
atiixp 6800 0
cmd64x 12444 0
cs5520 5248 0
cs5530 5632 0 [permanent]
cy82c693 4740 0 [permanent]
hpt34x 5632 0
ns87415 4552 0 [permanent]
opti621 4484 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_old 11392 0
piix 11012 0
rz1000 3200 0
sc1200 7552 0 [permanent]
serverworks 9736 0 [permanent]
siimage 12672 0
sis5513 17032 0
slc90e66 6016 0 [permanent]
triflex 3968 0 [permanent]
trm290 4868 0
via82cxxx 9988 0 [permanent]
usb_storage 74176 0
fbcon 42784 68
tileblit 2816 1 fbcon
font 8320 1 fbcon
bitblit 6272 1 fbcon
softcursor 2304 1 bitblit
vesafb 8476 2
usbserial 31336 0
usbkbd 7040 0
processor 23360 0
ide_cd 33028 1
cdrom 38560 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ide_disk 17664 2
usbhid 38368 0
sg 37920 0
sd_mod 19984 3
amd74xx 15132 0 [permanent]
generic 5124 0
ehci_hcd 32008 0
psmouse 36100 0
ohci_hcd 21892 0
usbcore 129668 7 usb_storage,usbserial,usbkbd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ohci1394 35124 0
ieee1394 299832 2 sbp2,ohci1394
sata_nv 9732 2
libata 61704 1 sata_nv
scsi_mod 138984 6 sr_mod,sbp2,usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
evdev 9856 0

[Mikko Saarinen (mikk0)]

I am using Beta 2 and in my case the installation has hanged twice when I have manually set the partitions.

I first deleted all partitions and then made hda "/", hdb "/home" and hdc "swap". In the next screen the installer offered to create filesystems to "/" and "swap". I selected all of the partitions and changed the order so that hda was at the topmost box and hdc at the bottom. I also verified that these pointed to correct mount points. Then I clicked Install.

After a short file the installer started to create the filesystems and exited wit an error message saying something like root file system not found (I was using localised version so am not sure of the exact message).

I had to reboot the machine to get the installer to work again.

The third time I did the partitioning I did not remove any partitions and at the next screen didn't change the order of the filesystems - just added the missing one (home?) and selected all to be formatted. This time the installer worked.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Did you use the entire disk, or create partions and use, e.g. hda1, instead of just hda?

If you used the entire disk, I think that's your problem.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Mikko, your bug is not the same as this one. It is very likely bug 37872 instead, which is fixed in current daily builds.

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has had no activity for a considerable period. This is a check to see if there is still interest in investigating this bug report.

[Benjamin Kuhnert (paindistributor)]

For myself, i've got no interests in this bug anymore. After new releases of Ubuntu
all the stuff is working. We can close this bug in my opinion.

Sorry for this late answer-