13.1 problem on IBX-530

686f6c6d <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:15:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.autoinstall
Message-ID <CAMEHyeE8btDQ8bAkfaf0Z+5V+RrdKZ65TbyOVyO+fByKMdrYTw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello world,

I'm experiencing a strange issue with 13.1s AutoYAST on IBX-530s [0].
Maybe some of you can help…

We're using rules.xml to distinguish between a couple of machines,
namely "real" servers, embedded devices (IBX) and more. The AutoYAST
profiles for the real servers and the embedded devices have only
trivial differences (re bootloader etc., nothing I'd suspect to have
any relevance to the problem). The only other difference is that for
real servers we use a static IP address (via hostip, nameserver, and
gateway boot parameters), and for embedded devices we use DHCP.

The real servers install and run just fine.
With the embedded devices, stage 1 finishes just fine, AFAICT. After
the reboot, stage 2 throws a few APCI errors (warnings?), then tells
me systemd is about to flush the journal (we don't use a persistent
journal), and then does nothing, YAST is never even displayed
(textmode=1 on both servers and embedded). I have tried around 10
installs and waited for up to 90 minutes; my colleague who first
experienced the problem said he waited for the journal for about five
minutes and was then dropped to a non-functioning login prompt or
shell, but I could not reproduce this.

YAST is started seemingly started in the background according to the
logs, and runs up to the first user prompt (we have to accept a GPG
key because we manually-by-script add a custom add-on repo). Since I
can't see YAST, I can't interact with it.
I cannot find what is wrong, not even an error message; I am quite
lost. I have attached some logs and command output. Can anybody shed
some light on what is happening? I would really appreciate any kind of
help, nudges in the right direction, or slaps in the back of the head
to wake up my brain. (;


[0]: http://www.ieiworld.com/search.aspx?keyword=ibx-530


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Kind regards
    Christopher 'm4z' Holm / 686f6c6d

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and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is
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USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.3   5916  3244 ?        Ss   14:40   0:02 /sbin/init showopts
root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kthreadd]
root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kworker/0:0]
root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [kworker/0:0H]
root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kworker/u2:0]
root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [migration/0]
root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [rcu_bh]
root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:01 [rcu_sched]
root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [watchdog/0]
root        11  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [khelper]
root        12  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kdevtmpfs]
root        13  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [netns]
root        14  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [writeback]
root        15  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [kintegrityd]
root        16  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [bioset]
root        17  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [kblockd]
root        18  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [md]
root        19  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kworker/0:1]
root        20  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [khungtaskd]
root        21  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kswapd0]
root        22  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        SN   14:40   0:00 [ksmd]
root        23  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [fsnotify_mark]
root        24  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [crypto]
root        29  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [kthrotld]
root        31  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [kpsmoused]
root        32  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [deferwq]
root        33  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kworker/u2:1]
root        38  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [kworker/0:2]
root        79  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [kmpath_rdacd]
root       100  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [khubd]
root       107  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:40   0:00 [ata_sff]
root       126  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root       128  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:40   0:00 [scsi_eh_1]
root       129  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:41   0:00 [kworker/u2:2]
root       130  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:41   0:00 [kworker/u2:3]
root       133  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:41   0:00 [kworker/0:1H]
root       184  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:41   0:00 [jbd2/sda2-8]
root       185  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:41   0:00 [ext4-rsv-conver]
root       186  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   14:41   0:00 [ext4-unrsv-conv]
root       220  0.0  1.1  46608 11252 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
root       221  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:41   0:00 [kauditd]
root       246  0.0  0.1  11804  1612 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
root       271  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:41   0:00 [scsi_eh_2]
root       272  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    14:41   0:00 [usb-storage]
message+   367  0.0  0.1   3944  1580 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
root       371  0.0  0.1   4024  1640 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
root       375  0.0  0.1   5152  1792 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.Second-Stage
root       381  0.0  0.1  38648  1868 ?        Ssl  14:41   0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n
root      1552  0.0  0.2   3732  2072 tty2     Ss   14:41   0:00 bash
root      2981  0.0  0.0   2416   124 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd --netconfig -L -E -HHH -c /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/dhcpcd-hook -t 0 -h linux eth0
root      3062  0.0  0.0   2716   824 ttyS0    Ss+  14:41   0:00 /sbin/agetty --keep-baud ttyS0 115200 38400 9600
root      3135  0.0  0.1   5164  1788 ?        S    14:41   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call installation continue
root      3947  0.0  6.7 111632 68436 ?        Sl   14:41   0:18 y2base installation ("continue") ncurses
root      4067  0.0  0.1   4608  1412 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master
root      4078  0.0  0.1   4524  1540 ?        Ss   14:41   0:00 /usr/sbin/cron -n
postfix   4080  0.0  0.1   4628  1388 ?        S    14:41   0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u
postfix   4081  0.0  0.1   4672  1416 ?        S    14:41   0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
root      4167  0.0  0.1   5032  1688 ?        S    14:41   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/lib/YaST2/servers_non_y2/ag_initscripts
root      4216  0.0  0.0   5164   964 ?        S    14:41   0:03 /bin/sh -x /var/adm/autoinstall/scripts/post-debug-resolvconf
root      9351  0.0  0.2   5108  2084 ?        Ss   14:45   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
root      9356  0.0  0.1   6592  1068 ?        S    14:45   0:00 (sd-pam)           
root      9902  0.0  0.0   3724   484 ?        S    14:45   0:00 sleep 0.1
root      9903  0.0  0.1   3388  1156 tty2     R+   14:45   0:00 ps aux
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