Edgy Beta cannot boot

[Daniel G. Taylor]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.17-10-386

The Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Beta release will not boot when installed on my system. Dapper works fine. When booting without 'quiet' and 'splash' in the grub kernel options I get output about modprobe failing, and it just sits.

I had to install Edgy by installing Dapper and then dist-upgrading. The Live/Install CD eventually boots (after sitting for 10 minutes doing nothing) but it cannot find my SATA hard drive to install to, the mouse doesn't show up, and there are several other problems, hence I have a feeling it may have something to do with the SATA drivers, but I'm not sure.

I am able to boot using my Dapper 2.6.15 kernel for now. Output from below is using the working kernel.

$ lsmod | grep sata
sata_via 10116 6
sata_promise 11780 0
libata 78992 2 sata_via,sata_promise
scsi_mod 139496 6 sr_mod,sbp2,sg,sd_mod,sata_promise,libata

$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 12296 1
rfcomm 40216 0
hidp 31744 2
l2cap 26244 10 rfcomm,hidp
bluetooth 49892 5 rfcomm,hidp,l2cap
powernow_k8 12680 0
cpufreq_userspace 4696 0
cpufreq_stats 5636 0
freq_table 4740 2 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6428 1
cpufreq_conservative 7332 0
video 16260 0
tc1100_wmi 6916 0
sony_acpi 5644 0
pcc_acpi 12416 0
hotkey 11556 0
dev_acpi 11140 0
container 4608 0
button 6672 0
acpi_sbs 19980 0
battery 9988 1 acpi_sbs
i2c_acpi_ec 5120 1 acpi_sbs
ac 5252 1 acpi_sbs
nls_utf8 2176 1
ntfs 103536 1
ipv6 265728 10
af_packet 22920 2
dm_mod 58936 1
md_mod 72532 0
sr_mod 16932 0
sbp2 24196 0
lp 11844 0
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0
snd_seq_oss 33536 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7552 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51984 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
tsdev 8000 0
usbhid 39904 0
evdev 9856 1
parport_pc 35780 1
psmouse 36100 0
snd_via82xx 28824 0
gameport 15496 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 93088 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
parport 36296 2 lp,parport_pc
snd_pcm_oss 53664 0
snd_mixer_oss 18688 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89864 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25220 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7808 1 snd_via82xx
serio_raw 7300 0
snd_rawmidi 25504 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8716 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
pcspkr 2180 0
floppy 62148 0
snd 55268 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
sg 37920 0
soundcore 10208 1 snd
i2c_viapro 8980 0
nvidia 4550772 0
i2c_core 21904 3 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_viapro,nvidia
r1000 16000 0
r8169 28808 0
rtc 13492 0
shpchp 45632 0
pci_hotplug 29236 1 shpchp
amd64_agp 12356 1
agpgart 34888 2 nvidia,amd64_agp
ext3 135688 3
jbd 58772 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 34184 0
uhci_hcd 33680 0
usbcore 130692 4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
ohci1394 35124 0
ieee1394 299832 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ide_generic 1536 0
ide_cd 33028 0
cdrom 38560 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
ide_disk 17664 3
via82cxxx 9988 0 [permanent]
sd_mod 19984 4
generic 5124 0
sata_via 10116 6
sata_promise 11780 0
libata 78992 2 sata_via,sata_promise
scsi_mod 139496 6 sr_mod,sbp2,sg,sd_mod,sata_promise,libata
thermal 13576 0
processor 23360 2 powernow_k8,thermal
fan 4868 0
fbcon 42784 0
tileblit 2816 1 fbcon
font 8320 1 fbcon
bitblit 6272 1 fbcon
softcursor 2304 1 bitblit
vesafb 8476 0
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7296 1 capability

$ dmesg
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-26-386 (buildd@terranova) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC 2006
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fee0000 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fee0000 - 000000003fee3000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fee3000 - 000000003fef0000 (ACPI data)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003ff00000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 126MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000f3aa0
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 261856
[17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000] HighMem zone: 32480 pages, LIFO batch:7
[17179569.184000] DMI 2.3 present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 K8T890 ) @ 0x000f7b20
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 K8T890 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee3040
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 K8T890 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee30c0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 K8T890 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee9980
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 K8T890 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fee98c0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 K8T890 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 15:15 APIC version 16
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x03] address[0xfecc0000] gsi_base[24])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 3, version 3, address 0xfecc0000, GSI 24-47
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 2 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3ff00000:a0100000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=5426f2f7-e6ec-4a6b-9666-183503b3cd1a ro quiet splash
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffb000 (fecc0000)
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 1800.088 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[17179569.244000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179569.248000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179569.268000] Memory: 1025704k/1047424k available (1976k kernel code, 20984k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 129920k highmem)
[17179569.268000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179569.348000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3604.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=7208556)
[17179569.348000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179569.348000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[17179569.348000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179569.348000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
[17179569.348000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
[17179569.348000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[17179569.348000] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[17179569.348000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000410 00000000 00000000 00000001
[17179569.348000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[17179569.348000] CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping 00
[17179569.348000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179569.348000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179569.348000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179569.364000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[17179570.124000] Freeing initrd memory: 8673k freed
[17179570.136000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179570.156000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179570.160000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179570.300000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179570.300000] EISA bus registered
[17179570.300000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179570.304000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfa160, last bus=6
[17179570.304000] PCI: Using MMCONFIG
[17179570.304000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216
[17179570.312000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179570.312000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179570.312000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179570.312000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179570.316000] Boot video device is 0000:02:00.0
[17179570.316000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179570.420000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEXG._PRT]
[17179570.420000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX0._PRT]
[17179570.420000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX1._PRT]
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX2._PRT]
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX3._PRT]
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12)
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
[17179570.424000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 *12)
[17179570.428000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs *20)
[17179570.428000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs *21)
[17179570.428000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs *22)
[17179570.428000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs *23), disabled.
[17179570.432000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179570.432000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179570.436000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[17179570.436000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179570.436000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179570.436000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[17179570.436000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:03.0
[17179570.436000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:03.1
[17179570.436000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:03.2
[17179570.436000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:03.3
[17179570.556000] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x4000-0x407f could not be reserved
[17179570.556000] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x5000-0x500f has been reserved
[17179570.556000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[17179570.556000] IO window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] MEM window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
[17179570.556000] IO window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] MEM window: b0000000-cfffffff
[17179570.556000] PREFETCH window: 40000000-400fffff
[17179570.556000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
[17179570.556000] IO window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] MEM window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.1
[17179570.556000] IO window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] MEM window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.2
[17179570.556000] IO window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] MEM window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.3
[17179570.556000] IO window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] MEM window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 27 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 31 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[B] -> GSI 35 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.1 to 64
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.2[C] -> GSI 39 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.2 to 64
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.3[D] -> GSI 43 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.3 to 64
[17179570.556000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179570.556000] audit(1159706605.556:1): initialized
[17179570.556000] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[17179570.556000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179570.556000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179570.556000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179570.556000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179570.556000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179570.556000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179570.556000] io scheduler cfq registered
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 27 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[17179570.556000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 31 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
[17179570.556000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[B] -> GSI 35 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.1 to 64
[17179570.556000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.2[C] -> GSI 39 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.2 to 64
[17179570.556000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179570.556000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.3[D] -> GSI 43 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179570.556000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.3 to 64
[17179570.556000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie01]
[17179570.556000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[17179570.560000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179570.912000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179570.924000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179570.924000] PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
[17179570.924000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179570.924000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179570.924000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179570.924000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179570.924000] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179570.924000] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179570.924000] 00:08: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179570.924000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179570.924000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179570.924000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179570.924000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179570.924000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[17179570.924000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[17179570.924000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
[17179570.924000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[17179570.924000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179570.964000] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[17179570.964000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179570.964000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179570.964000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[17179570.964000] TCP reno registered
[17179570.964000] TCP bic registered
[17179570.964000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179570.964000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179570.964000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179570.964000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[17179570.964000] ACPI wakeup devices:
[17179570.964000] PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 USB5 USB6 USB7 AC97 PEXG PEX0 PEX1 PEX2 PEX3 UAR1
[17179570.964000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[17179570.964000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed
[17179571.340000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179571.368000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[17179572.032000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179572.060000] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[17179572.064000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (43 C)
[17179572.464000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17179572.468000] ACPI: bus type scsi registered
[17179572.468000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
[17179572.468000] sata_promise 0000:00:07.0: version 1.03
[17179572.468000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 66
[17179572.468000] sata_promise PATA port found
[17179572.484000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8834200 ctl 0xF8834238 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
[17179572.484000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8834280 ctl 0xF88342B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
[17179572.484000] ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8834300 ctl 0xF8834338 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
[17179572.688000] ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
[17179572.688000] scsi0 : sata_promise
[17179572.892000] ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
[17179572.892000] scsi1 : sata_promise
[17179574.044000] ata3: disabling port
[17179574.044000] scsi2 : sata_promise
[17179574.104000] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 1.1
[17179574.104000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: df6cb802 Type 07 Len 0
[17179574.104000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
[17179574.104000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 74
[17179574.104000] sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11
[17179574.104000] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE000 ctl 0xE102 bmdma 0xE400 irq 74
[17179574.104000] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE200 ctl 0xE302 bmdma 0xE408 irq 74
[17179575.316000] scsi3 : sata_via
[17179575.480000] ata5: dev 0 cfg 00:0040 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4063 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4063 88:407f 93:0000
[17179575.480000] ata5: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 398297088 sectors: LBA48
[17179575.480000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0xf0000, handle=0xdffe9fc0
[17179575.488000] ata5: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
[17179575.492000] sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0xf0000, handle=0xdffe9fc0
[17179575.500000] scsi4 : sata_via
[17179575.500000] Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6L200S0 Rev: BANC
[17179575.500000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[17179575.508000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17179575.508000] SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
[17179575.508000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[17179575.512000] SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
[17179575.512000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[17179575.512000] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[17179575.552000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[17179575.728000] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1
[17179575.728000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 74
[17179575.728000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 10
[17179575.728000] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[17179575.728000] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179575.728000] VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1
[17179575.728000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe600-0xe607, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[17179575.728000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe608-0xe60f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
[17179575.728000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179576.144000] hda: ST380020A, ATA DISK drive
[17179576.820000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179576.824000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179577.688000] hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179578.472000] hdd: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179578.528000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[17179578.536000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[17179578.544000] hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
[17179578.544000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[17179578.544000] hda: hda1 hda2
[17179578.584000] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[17179578.584000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179578.604000] hdd: ATAPI 16X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[17179579.016000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[17179579.020000] ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <email address hidden>
[17179579.020000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 82
[17179579.072000] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[82] MMIO=[d4041000-d40417ff] Max Packet=[2048]
[17179579.088000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179579.088000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179579.092000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
[17179579.092000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: dfd5e3c2 Type 07 Len 0
[17179579.092000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21
[17179579.092000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 90
[17179579.092000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.0, from 11 to 10
[17179579.092000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
[17179579.092000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179579.092000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 90, io base 0x0000e700
[17179579.092000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.092000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179579.196000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 90
[17179579.196000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.1, from 11 to 10
[17179579.196000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
[17179579.196000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[17179579.196000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 90, io base 0x0000e800
[17179579.196000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.196000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179579.300000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 90
[17179579.300000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 11 to 10
[17179579.300000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
[17179579.300000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[17179579.300000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 90, io base 0x0000e900
[17179579.300000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.300000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179579.404000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 90
[17179579.404000] PCI: VIA IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 11 to 10
[17179579.404000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller
[17179579.404000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[17179579.404000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 90, io base 0x0000ea00
[17179579.404000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.404000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179579.508000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 90
[17179579.508000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller
[17179579.508000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[17179579.508000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 90, io mem 0xd4042000
[17179579.508000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[17179579.508000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.508000] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[17179579.664000] Attempting manual resume
[17179579.716000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179579.740000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179580.348000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00110666001e7c1f]
[17179580.800000] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[17179587.220000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179587.220000] agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
[17179587.220000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
[17179587.576000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179587.580000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179588.052000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[17179588.272000] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
[17179588.272000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 98
[17179588.272000] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
[17179588.272000] eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8a14000, 00:e0:4c:00:77:78, IRQ 98
[17179588.320000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[17179588.324000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 106
[17179588.324000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
[17179588.324000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8762 Mon May 15 13:06:38 PDT 2006
[17179588.552000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17179588.596000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[17179588.612000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[17179588.616000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[17179588.728000] **** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: dfaccf02 Type 07 Len 0
[17179588.728000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] enabled at IRQ 22
[17179588.728000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> Link [ALKC] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 114
[17179588.728000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
[17179588.732000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[17179588.732000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[17179588.732000] atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
[17179589.044000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[17179589.064000] input: B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input3
[17179589.064000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.1-1
[17179589.064000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
[17179589.064000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[17179589.104000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[17179589.456000] r8169: eth0: link down
[17179589.548000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[17179589.576000] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <email address hidden>
[17179589.576000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[17179589.576000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[17179589.620000] Adding 996016k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/358e0674-51f7-4339-87c6-ba641fe2ca53. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:996016k
[17179589.764000] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[17179589.892000] r8169: eth0: link up
[17179589.904000] md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[17179589.904000] md: bitmap version 4.39
[17179590.052000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: <email address hidden>
[17179590.488000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179595.984000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179595.984000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179595.984000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179596.160000] cdrom: open failed.
[17179596.664000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179596.664000] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[17179596.664000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179596.664000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179596.664000] EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
[17179596.664000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179596.700000] NTFS driver 2.1.25 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[17179596.748000] NTFS volume version 3.1.
[17179602.116000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179602.116000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179602.196000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179602.220000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179602.476000] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.50.4)
[17179602.476000] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x6 (1400 mV)
[17179602.476000] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
[17179602.476000] cpu_init done, current fid 0xa, vid 0x6
[17179605.068000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179605.068000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179605.996000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[17179610.888000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[17179610.888000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[17179610.888000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179610.888000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179610.900000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179610.900000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179610.912000] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1-mh1
[17179610.924000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179610.924000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179610.924000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7

Let me know what other information you need. Thanks for any help.

[Thiago Rafael Becker (thiago-becker)]

This also happens to me after a dist-upgrade. The kernel package can't create a ramdisk image, so system panics on boot, because it can't read the disk partition.

Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.17-10-386 on running kernel 2.6.15-27-386 in /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs

[A. Sopicki (a-sopicki)]

I have the same problem as the poster of this bug. modprobe fails to load the sata_promise kernel module because of a NULL derefence problem. Tested with Edgy Knot3 and Edgy Beta.

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

Just a little more info, I tried to type in most of the output when booting without the "quiet" and "splash" options. It eventually dumps me into a Busybox shell from the initramfs but I couldn't figure out how to save any of the output.

Begin: Mounting root file system...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top...
SCSI subsystem initialized
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 66
sata_promise PATA port found
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8848200 ctl 0xF8848238 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8848280 ctl 0xF88482B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8848300 ctl 0xF8848338 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi0: sata_promise
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
scsi1: sata_promise
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
printing eip:
f8852652
*pde 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
Modules linked in: sata_promise libata scsi_mod thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor vesafb capability commoncap
...
EIP is at pdc_sata_scr_write+0x12/0x20
...
Call trace:
__sata_phy_reset+0x2c/0x100 [libata] sata_phy_reset+0x8/0x20 [libata]
ata_device_add+0x55e/0x610 [libata] pdc_ata_init_one+0x2b7/0x3e0 [sata_promise]
pci_device_probe, driveR_probe_device
__driver_attach, __driver_attach
bus_add_driver, __pci_register_driver
sys_init_module, syscall_call
EIP: pdc_sata_scr_write+0x12/0x20 [sata_promise]
udevd-event[1742]: run_program '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit

... [after about 10 minutes]
Begin: Waiting for root filesystem...

This seems like a pretty critical bug; I hope someone can take a look at this before the release in a few days.

[VOROSBARANYI Zoltan (4irmjh602)]

The promise driver incorrectly reports three SATA ports on cards with two SATA, one PATA port. After, when tries to initialise the third - in fact the PATA port as SATA - it fails, and causes kernel oops. Furthermore the additional PATA port in SATA controllers is currently supported only in develpoment branch of the kernel (http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html).

(See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/8/254 for a similar bug.)

I made a trivial patch to remedy it by simply disabling the PATA port which did not work anyway.

[Rouben (rouben)]

Is the same issue present in the latest package in Edgy release? If not, then this bug should probably be closed.

[b-art (ubuntu-b-art)]

The probleme is still present in final 20-oct-2006 Edgy release.

I am using amd64, mk8 motherboard, SATA promise and VIA onboard.

I will try the patch mentioned by Zoltan.

[Rouben (rouben)]

Thanks for responding! Please let me know if the patch works. It would also be useful to see if this issue has been patched in a later version of the kernel. Are you running the latest kernel?

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

Confirmed on the most current Edgy kernel and also on yesterday's Feisty daily live cd. This bug NEEDS to get fixed. I can't use any recent kernels or live cds because of it and the bug has been open for a long time now. This should probably also be sent upstream to the kernel folks.

It's been a long time since I've patched my kernel for anything, so if anyone wants to walk me through the process I will confirm the patch. Just don't let this bug stagnate any longer please!

[Rouben (rouben)]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks very much for checking this bug with the latest Edgy LiveCD. I need the following information from you, collected using the latest Edgy LiveCD:

1. Architecture of the machine (please confirm that it's a 32-bit Intel machine). Providing the output of "uname -a" would be perfect.
2. Please run "dmesg > dmesg.log" and attach the file "dmesg.log" to this bug.
3. Please run "lspci -vv > lspci-vv.log" and attach the file "lspci-vv.log" to this bug.
4. Please run "lspci -vvn > lspci-vvn.log" and attach the file "lspci-vvn.log" to this bug.

Note that the above are the requirements of the Ubuntu kernel team (see here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelProblems). As soon as you provide this information, I'll refer the issue to the Ubuntu Kernel Team, storage group (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel-storage).

Thanks again for your contribution to Ubuntu!

[Rouben (rouben)]

Just a quick note: I realize that you already posted some of this information (like dmesg output among other things), however, it would be more helpful if you could repost it, from the same, latest kernel image on Edgy release. Thanks a lot, Daniel!

[Daniel G. Taylor (danielgtaylor)]

Hey,

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond, but I finally found some time today to get this done. It literally takes half an hour for me to boot from the live cd (it just sits after the kernel null pointer crashes modprobe or something, but eventually boots). When it finally boots I have no access to usb or network hardware, but I found a way to save the logs so I could bring them up again later on a second hard drive.

The logs attached are for Edgy, but booting a Feisty live cd has the same error (I just don't have the time to wait for it to boot all the way right now).

I just want to stress that this is a serious show stopper bug. I cannot use Ubuntu on my system with the default kernel. I'm really hoping the fix will get into Feisty.

[Rouben (rouben)]

Thank you so much for responding and providing the requested information, Daniel. Your help and cooperation is much appreciated! I am now assigning the bug to the Ubuntu Linux kernel developers for further analysis.

Note to kernel team: Prior comments on this bug include a kernel call trace, as well as a proposed patch for the sata_promise.c driver which seems to work around the problem according to the patch submitter.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

This is fixed in 2.6.20. Backporting fix to 2.6.17.

[Rouben (rouben)]

Just curious: since this issue obviously affects the Edgy's LiveCD, does that mean that 6.10.1 ISO images will be released with the updated 2.6.17 kernel?

[Kevin (kevogod)]

I would also like to know if there will be an updated Edgy install CD available with this fix as I have almost the same problem.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Isn't this fixed on 2.6.17 ?

[Rouben (rouben)]

Yes, it seems to be fixed in 2.6.17, but are the Edgy ISO images updated?

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

It's fixed and released for Edgy.