Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

This weekend I tried to get the Gentoo livecd for amd64 and i686 working.
The i686 version successfully installed and does "run". The amd64
livecd boots and
runs but then during install stops trying to unpack the 50th of 116 files at
the beginning of the install process.

I'm running on an Intel dual core 2 6600 with 2G of Ram. I created qemu/kvm
from git sources with the last git commit of 05eb943c9b547 on May 6 16:10:01.

What other information may be needed?

Regards,

Wink Saville

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Avi Kivity]

Wink Saville wrote:
> This weekend I tried to get the Gentoo livecd for amd64 and i686 working.
> The i686 version successfully installed and does "run". The amd64
> livecd boots and
> runs but then during install stops trying to unpack the 50th of 116 files at
> the beginning of the install process.
>
> I'm running on an Intel dual core 2 6600 with 2G of Ram. I created qemu/kvm
> from git sources with the last git commit of 05eb943c9b547 on May 6 16:10:01.
>
> What other information may be needed?
>
>   

Is there anything in dmesg?

Please provide a link to the livecd you used.


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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

> Please provide a link to the livecd you used.
>
http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/amd64/

I'm using bridging to connect guest to host and use the following commands:

1) qemu-img create -f qcow gentoo-amd64.img 20G

2) qemu-system-x86_64 . -hda gentoo-amd64.img -cdrom  \
livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso -boot d -m 1024 \
-net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0

3) Enter "gentoo" at boot prompt of guest

4) Execute" Gento Linux Installer (GTK+)" by double clicking

5) "Choose your install mode", select "Standard", then NEXT

6) "Partitioning", select "Recommended Layout", then YES to dialog

7) After partitioning is complete then, NEXT

8) "Local mounts", NEXT

9) "Network mount", NEXT (nothing selected)

10) "Stage selection", select "Build stage from files on LiveCD", NEXT

11) "Protage Tree", NEXT

12) Install activity stop with the progress bar:
 "Gentoo Linux Installer - installation Progress"
 "Step:   Unpack stge tarball"
 "Copying dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2 (50/116)"

The dmesg data on the host:

[47119.825384] device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
[47119.825454] audit(1179158073.252:6): dev=tap0 prom=256 old_prom=0
auid=4294967295
[47119.857412] br0: port 2(tap0) entering learning state
[47134.821907] br0: topology change detected, propagating
[47134.821914] br0: port 2(tap0) entering forwarding state

Also, the guest is alive I can execute other programs and can
"Cancel" the install. All seems well, just the install stopped.

I will leave the system up and try to provide other information
you may need when I get home tonight. Also, to night I will try
to use the iso image natively just to be sure its at least works.

Cheers,

Wink Saville

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Avi Kivity]

Wink Saville wrote:
>> Please provide a link to the livecd you used.
>>
> http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/amd64/
>
> I'm using bridging to connect guest to host and use the following 
> commands:
>
> 1) qemu-img create -f qcow gentoo-amd64.img 20G
>
> 2) qemu-system-x86_64 . -hda gentoo-amd64.img -cdrom  \
> livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso -boot d -m 1024 \
> -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0
>
> 3) Enter "gentoo" at boot prompt of guest
>
> 4) Execute" Gento Linux Installer (GTK+)" by double clicking
>
> 5) "Choose your install mode", select "Standard", then NEXT
>
> 6) "Partitioning", select "Recommended Layout", then YES to dialog
>
> 7) After partitioning is complete then, NEXT
>
> 8) "Local mounts", NEXT
>
> 9) "Network mount", NEXT (nothing selected)
>
> 10) "Stage selection", select "Build stage from files on LiveCD", NEXT
>
> 11) "Protage Tree", NEXT
>
> 12) Install activity stop with the progress bar:
> "Gentoo Linux Installer - installation Progress"
> "Step:   Unpack stge tarball"
> "Copying dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2 (50/116)"
>
> The dmesg data on the host:
>
> [47119.825384] device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
> [47119.825454] audit(1179158073.252:6): dev=tap0 prom=256 old_prom=0
> auid=4294967295
> [47119.857412] br0: port 2(tap0) entering learning state
> [47134.821907] br0: topology change detected, propagating
> [47134.821914] br0: port 2(tap0) entering forwarding state
>
> Also, the guest is alive I can execute other programs and can
> "Cancel" the install. All seems well, just the install stopped.
>
> I will leave the system up and try to provide other information
> you may need when I get home tonight. Also, to night I will try
> to use the iso image natively just to be sure its at least works.

This reproduces here.  qemu works, so it's likely an interrupt being 
lost.  Can you try out Gregory's apic patchset?


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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

>
> This reproduces here.  qemu works, so it's likely an interrupt being
> lost.  Can you try out Gregory's apic patchset?
>

Avi,

I assume you mean the "v4 & v5" acpi patches from Gregory Haskins,
sorry to ask a seemingly simple question, but I'm new to the list.

Also, I don't have these patches, are they in the kvm git repo, or should
I pull them from the list archives.

Regards,

Wink Saville

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Gregory Haskins]

>>> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at  1:36 AM, in message
<d4cf37a60705172236s1e1a340bg4e22c98ff1a37490-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>, "Wink Saville"
<wink-hKg/bvL8yClBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote: 
>> 
>> This reproduces here.  qemu works, so it's likely an interrupt being
>> lost.  Can you try out Gregory's apic patchset?
>>
> 
> Avi,
> 
> I assume you mean the "v4 & v5" acpi patches from Gregory Haskins,
> sorry to ask a seemingly simple question, but I'm new to the list.
> 
> Also, I don't have these patches, are they in the kvm git repo, or should
> I pull them from the list archives.

Hi Wink,

You can pull them from the list archives, or I can just send them directly to you.  If you pull from the archive, be sure to get both the kernel and userspace series with the "v5" in the title.

Note that what I currently would be able to send direct is a little more updated than v5.  I hope this is ok.   I am still prepping the "in-kernel-halt vs eventfd" patches, so I don't want to push a new version to the list quite yet, but you can run without either of those just fine.

Regards,
-Greg

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

>
> Hi Wink,
>
> You can pull them from the list archives, or I can just send them directly to you.  If you pull from the archive, be sure to get both the kernel and userspace series with the "v5" in the title.
>
> Note that what I currently would be able to send direct is a little more updated than v5.  I hope this is ok.   I am still prepping the "in-kernel-halt vs eventfd" patches, so I don't want to push a new version to the list quite yet, but you can run without either of those just fine.
>
> Regards,
> -Greg
>
Greg,

How about you send them directly, less likely for a mistake on my part.

Thanks,

Wink

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Gregory Haskins]

Hi Wink, 
  I actually did send them to you right after I sent this.  Let me know if you did not receive. 
 
I also posted v6 to the list last night.  Note that I found a performance regression under Linux late last night with v6 so I would hold off testing until I can fix it.  Hopefully I can drop a v7 to the list early next week with a fix. 
 
-Greg 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: "Wink Saville" <wink-hKg/bvL8yClBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> 
To: Gregory Haskins <GHaskins-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> 
CC: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org> 
Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> 
Creation Date: 5/18 6:37 pm 
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] Gentoo livecd amd64 not working? 
 
> 
> Hi Wink, 
> 
> You can pull them from the list archives, or I can just send them directly to you.  If you pull from the archive, be sure to get both the kernel and userspace series with the "v5" in the title. 
> 
> Note that what I currently would be able to send direct is a little more updated than v5.  I hope this is ok.   I am still prepping the "in-kernel-halt vs eventfd" patches, so I don't want to push a new version to the list quite yet, but you can run without either of those just fine. 
> 
> Regards, 
> -Greg 
> 
Greg, 
 
How about you send them directly, less likely for a mistake on my part. 
 
Thanks, 
 
Wink 
 
 

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

I have them now, they got filtered as spam:(

Also, I just tired grabbing from the sourceforge archive, but it they
don't apply correctly because the "@@ xxxxx @@" line gets
joined with the next line. At least that's what I see.

On the gname archive its even worse the @@ get converted to
<at> <at> as they must think its an email address. So it looks
like the archives are a poor place to pickup patches, at least
for me.

I've got some other things to do but hopefully later today or
tomorrow I'll be able to try the patches.

Wink Saville

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

> Also, I just tired grabbing from the sourceforge archive, but it they
> don't apply correctly because the "@@ xxxxx @@" line gets
> joined with the next line. At least that's what I see.

I've looked more closely at this and my initial impression was incorrect,
its not that lines are joined. A problem (and possibly not the only problem)
is that leading spaces are removed making the an illegal patch file format
as these patches have context which are unchanged lines and are supposed
to be preceded by a space. But leading spaces get removed rendering the
format improper. Also internal tabs and multiple spaces are reduced to
single spaces also rendering the format changed.

Sorry for any confusion but the upshot is still that the archives are
unable to be used for retrieving patches.

Wink Saville

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Jim Paris]

> On the gname archive its even worse the @@ get converted to
> <at> <at> as they must think its an email address. So it looks
> like the archives are a poor place to pickup patches, at least
> for me.
..
> Sorry for any confusion but the upshot is still that the archives are
> unable to be used for retrieving patches.

For archived messages at http://article.gmane.org/, you can append
"/raw" to the URL to get an unprocessed copy of the message.

-jim

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Wink Saville]

> For archived messages at http://article.gmane.org/, you can append
> "/raw" to the URL to get an unprocessed copy of the message.

Thanks for the info, at first I didn't catch that "article.gmane.org" was
referring to as I read your post. So for other newbie's the kvm archive is at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel if you click
"direct" link at the bottom of the page you get a URL like:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/3206

If you now append /raw to that URL:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/3206/raw

You'll get the "raw" email data and the @ signs are not converted to
<at>  <at>, but it still looks like they have processed email addresses
so they can't be harvested by spammers. So, for instance,
Eddie's email in the body of the message becomes:

  <eddie.dong-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org>

I'm not sure this is always suitable for patching, but it does look like
it is processable by git-am.

Wink

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Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Gregory Haskins]

Ok, good to know, thanks.  Note that I expect that performance problem to potentially affect the version I sent you directly as well.  I'll cc the update to you with the list once I fix it. 
 
-Greg 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: "Wink Saville" <wink-hKg/bvL8yClBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> 
To: Gregory Haskins <GHaskins-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> 
CC: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org 
Creation Date: 5/19 12:36 pm 
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] Gentoo livecd amd64 not working? 
 
I have them now, they got filtered as spam:( 
 
Also, I just tired grabbing from the sourceforge archive, but it they 
don't apply correctly because the "@@ xxxxx @@" line gets 
joined with the next line. At least that's what I see. 
 
On the gname archive its even worse the @@ get converted to 
<at> <at> as they must think its an email address. So it looks 
like the archives are a poor place to pickup patches, at least 
for me. 
 
I've got some other things to do but hopefully later today or 
tomorrow I'll be able to try the patches. 
 
Wink Saville 
 
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