Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

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pilotbabo
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Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

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I have problem when issuing reboot command. System is displaying Restarting now, but nothing happens anymore. Sometimes it goes through, maybe 1 of 5 times. I tried with changing WinXP in BIOS to Other but no difference. It seems to me BIOS acpi issue. I have other 2 microclients from Northec with same OS and never had problem with reboot.

Second thing is that I am not getting always IP adres. This happens occassionaly.

Please suggest what to do.

Update : Did a steps as described here : http://www.fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?t ... buntu_8.04

but still reboot is hanging with : Sending all processes the KILL signal ...

Also getting this meesage when booting : usb 1-1 : device not accepting address 2, error -71

There is no other device expect USB stick from which I boot the system.

Denis
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

Post by Denis »

Regarding reboot - please post results of:

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dmesg | grep -i dmi
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pilotbabo
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

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root@pilot:~# dmesg | grep -i dmi
[ 0.000000] DMI present.
[ 13.123828] ACPI: DMI System Vendor: CompuLab
[ 13.123832] ACPI: DMI Product Name: SBC-FITPC2
[ 13.123836] ACPI: DMI Product Version: Not Applicable
[ 13.123839] ACPI: DMI Board Name: SBC-FITPC2
[ 13.123843] ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
[ 13.123847] ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 07/21/2009
[ 13.123850] ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
root@pilot:~#

Denis
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

Post by Denis »

Your BIOS is ok, are you sure you have installed our kernel? uname -r gives 2.6.24-34-fitpc2 ?
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pilotbabo
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

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root@pilot:~# uname -r
2.6.24-34-fitpc2
root@pilot:~#


## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-34-fitpc2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-34-fitpc2 root=UUID=c10476f3-5879-4348-8570-e52553fed66a ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-34-fitpc2
quiet


After kernel ugrade, 1st reboot hangs. Second reboot is ok. 3rd and reboots that follows hanging with the message : Sending all processes the KILL signal ...

Denis
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

Post by Denis »

Try to add 'reboot=b' option to kernel boot line, it should look like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-34-fitpc2 root=UUID=c10476f3-5879-4348-8570-e52553fed66a reboot=b ro quiet splash

Are you sure your hard drive does not contain any other ubuntu installation? May be you are booting with some non-Compulab kernel accidentally?
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pilotbabo
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

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I dont have hard disk at all. I am booting from USB stick. Ubuntu server edition 8.04 is installed on USB stick and I am booting form it.

I will try this option and report feedback.

Update : Tried with reboot=b but no success.

pilotbabo
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

Post by pilotbabo »

This drives me carzy. Just did a fresh Ubuntu instalation. Followed steps in installation manual. 2 first reboots went ok and now 3rd one hangs at Sending all processes the KILL signal. Are we having the same machine? I am begining to suspect that something is not ok with this unit.

Also first 5 time pc got IP adress. 6th time after restart pc doesnt get IP adress. This is very annoying problem.

Update : After some testing come to the conclusion that reboot -f is going ok. It seems that shutdown command which is invloved in normal reboot causes this problem. With -f switch shutdown command is not executed.

Update : Just tested with Debian 5.0 same issue.

linuxball
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 reboot and other problem

Post by linuxball »

My system:
  • Lean Ubuntu 8.04.4 installation with kernel 2.6.24-34-fitpc2 on a bootable USB-Stick (4 GByte all as one ext2 root partition)
  • All official Ubuntu + CompuLab's fit-PC2 updates for Ubuntu 8.04 as of today [2010-03-09]
  • Latest BIOS Update:

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    # dmesg|grep -i dmi
    [    0.000000] DMI present.
    [   12.735166] ACPI: DMI System Vendor: CompuLab
    [   12.735171] ACPI: DMI Product Name: SBC-FITPC2
    [   12.735174] ACPI: DMI Product Version: 1.1
    [   12.735178] ACPI: DMI Board Name: SBC-FITPC2
    [   12.735181] ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
    [   12.735185] ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 12/24/2009
    [   12.735189] ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
    #
    
I confirm the following issues:
  1. /etc/init.d/sendsigs script hangs very often. It is called at shutdown (i.e. after shutdown, poweroff, halt, reboot). Mostly the script hangs in
    1. the killall5 command of line 39:

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      killall5 -9 $OMITPIDS
      
      after message Sending all processes the KILL signal... and before [ OK ]. Sometimes it already hangs in
    2. the killall5 command of line 35:

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      killall5 -15 $OMITPIDS
      
      after Message Terminating all remaining processes... and before [ OK ].
    I added a "pstree -p" command before line 35 to see what processes are running and now the script always hung in the killal5 -15 command (item b.).

    Using reboot -f for rebooting is not an option because it does not cleanly unmount the ext2 root file system causing fsck to check and correct it each time the system boots.

    Fortunately, I found a solution to this problem. Obviously, the killall5 is buggy (see Ubuntu bug #151580 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/151580). It was fixed in more recent Ubuntu versions. I downloaded Karmic's sysvinit-utils_2.87dsf-4ubuntu12_i386.deb from http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic-updat ... s/download extracted the killall5 binary and copied it to the /sbin directory. Yippee! No problems with shutdown and reboot any longer. I wonder why they did not backport the fix to Hardy.
  2. Occasionally the GB ethernet interface does not work (I use static IP assignment). In this case everything looks normal (ifconfig, route and friends report normal values) but the interface simply does not work. Neither ping from fit-PC2 to other hosts in the same LAN works nor can other hosts get ping replies from the fit-PC2.

    I did not yet have the time to look for this problem. Could this be an auto-negotiation problem?

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