While booting, fails to load hardware drivers

[Oliver Klee]

I'm using Kubuntu Dapper RC1 i386 (upgraded from Breezy) plus today's updates on an Athlon 1400 MHz system with 1GB RAM on an Asus A7A266 board.

On about 2 out of 10 boots, the system hangs for a few minutes at "Loading hardware drivers ...", then switches to text mode with a "[failed]" concerning the hardware drivers.

I've tried to find this boot attempt in my logs, but there seems to be no trace of it in any of the logs in /var/log.

[Oliver Klee (launchpad-oliverklee)]

If if wait for a few minutes in such a case, the booting continues until they point "Starting Enterprise Volumen Management" where it hangs completely.

[magilus (magilus)]

Confirmed with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Final. It hangs on about 2 out of 10 boots. After waiting a long time it continus to boot.

Two of my friends have the same problem.

[Patrick Wijnings (dutchr-pw)]

One of my systems also has this problem: it hangs at Loading Hardware Drivers for a few minutes, and then it continues until Starting Enterprise Volume Management.

I didn't notice these problems in Breezy.

lspci output:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
0000:00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W [Millennium II]
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex]
0000:00:07.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:07.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:00:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 10)

lsusb output:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0ace:1201 ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

This bug may be related to bug #32597.

[Mark Carey (careym)]

I'll just chip in what appears to be a me too on this one.

I boot without splash all the time beause I like to know what is going on. I have feisty final 7.04 on a GA-965-DS3P with the following hardware;

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HB (ICH8) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4364 (rev 14)
04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

Ocassionally I get, Loading Hardware Drivers ...... and no "[OK]", normally this step completes in 5-7 seconds, next time it happens I will try waiting for minutes to see if it does manage to continue.

[Mark Carey (careym)]

Another me too this time on;

careys@hereford:~$ uname -a
Linux hereford 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

using;

linux-image-2.6.20-15-generic_2.6.20-15.27_i386.deb

I waited approx 7 minutes for booting to resume and it didnt, so I restarted the machine and it restarted just fine.

[Ashley Hooper (ash-hooper)]

Another 'me too' on a machine that has been dist-upgraded from Dapper->Edgy->Feisty - though in my case the system boots fine. I don't run usplash and booted without 'quiet' and there doesn't seem to be any obvious error message displayed then, nor in the dmesg output.

lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 04)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 6c)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RL/VR AGP

lsusb output:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13fe:1e00
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Now that the 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release of Ubuntu is out, we were wondering if you can still reproduce this issue. Could you please download and try the new version of Ubuntu from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and report back your results. If the issue is still present in the new release, please attach the following information:

* uname -a > uname-a.log
* cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
* dmesg > dmesg.log
* sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log

Please be sure to attach each file as a separate attachment. For more information regarding the kernel team bug policy, please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks again and we appreciate your help and feedback.

[Oliver Klee (launchpad-oliverklee)]

I haven't seen this bug in Feisty or Gutsy anymore; so I guess this bug can be closed.

[DeeCee52 (d2-c2)]

I just installed Gutsy server and have the same problem. I will try to attach the logs, although there are other issues with the install that may be contributing to this bug.

[spiderbatdad (spiderbatdad)]

I have not had this issue until now. After upgrading to 2.6.24-12 in Hardy. Hardwares drivers fail to load after a long delay in the boot process, and ultimately several devices do not work...audio and wireless most notably.

I also use Hardy on the 2.6.22-14 kernel, and while there is a long delay in the boot process, all devices work. Previous releases, this issue was solved by editing usplash, but not so with the Hardy release.

[Shreepad S (shreepads)]

Hi

Just installed Xubuntu 7.10 on a relatively ancient PC with a P3 and 256MB RAM with Windows dual boot.
Completely new to Linux/ Ubuntu so struggling a bit with this.. But have done some basic UNIX work before...

What I see is that in a sequence of 6 boots I saw this problem occurring alternately. Two kinds of boots:

a. Slow: Would drop out of the splash screen, show the scrolling text and "Loading hardware drivers... [fail]". It didn't hang but took 14 mins to get to the login screen

b. Fast: All find, progress bar on splash screen would reach the end and get login screen in 3:30 mins or so.

A bit bugging that I got Xubuntu on this so that it would work faster, but Win 2000 is booting and loading up apps and docs faster!!

So what happens next with this?

uname -a gives me:
-------------------------
Linux shuklas-xubuntud 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 09:21:34 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/version_signature gives me:
-----------------------------------------------
Ubuntu 2.6.22-15.54-generic

sudo lspci -vvnn gives me the same in both slow and fast boots (compared outputs using diff)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub [8086:7124] (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (GMCH) Graphics Memory Controller Hub [8086:7124]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller [8086:7125] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:0200]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Region 1: Memory at eff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge [8086:2418] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
 Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efdfffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e7b00000-e7bfffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) [8086:2410] (rev 02)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaste...

[Shreepad S (shreepads)]

(Contd.)

Dmesg for slow boot

[Shreepad S (shreepads)]

(Contd.)

Dmesg for fast boot

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Feisty Fawn 7.04 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.20 Feisty Fawn kernel task. However, please note that this report will remain open against the actively developed kernel. Thank you for your continued support and help as we debug this issue.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Dapper reached EOL, please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade and test, I'll leave the linux task open for that.

Feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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