20120806 Install Hangs at "Detect Disks"

safetycopy · 2012-08-10 03:33:49

Just had a go at installing the new release and for the first time ever, the installer hangs at "Detect disks".

When the "detecting disks" page loads, the progress bar fills up and quickly jumps to the "Detect disks" page, where it hangs. Mouse still works, but nothing else does.

Tried burning the dd way and from Windows using the Win32DiskImage program with the same result.

zsA · 2012-08-10 04:02:10

Just registered to say that his happens to me too. Installed Statler without a problem and since it was so nice I wanted to try Waldorf too, except it freezes at Detect disks. On a USB disk using Win32DiskImage, same USB and same procedure that installed Statler without a problem one hour ago.

machinebacon · 2012-08-10 07:00:12

It's strange that some people report this, others have no problem. What kind of hard drives (IDE/SATA?) do you two use? Or is it SSD? Maybe post your lspci and we can see similarities?

kelean · 2012-08-10 07:22:49

I have the same problem as stated in the other thread. My laptop is a dell latitude d800.

Here is my lspci.

kevin@tinkbang:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7510,7610 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 OHCI-Lynx Controller
02:01.3 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI7410,7510,7610 PCI Firmware Loading Function
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
kevin@tinkbang:~$

When my install stopped I switched to a different virtual terminal. I read several warnings about fat16 file systems and utf8. I am typing this from memory I should have wrote the exact warnings.

I am not sure if the hard drive is ide or sata.

yaquya · 2012-08-10 15:03:34

Hi there,

it's not that i don't enjoy my statler install, but i would very much like to try the latest one smile lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx DMI Bridge (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller

I do not have any windows machine around, so i made the stick using dd. Laptop is a Samsung NF310 netbook, install hangs when trying to detect disks.

EDIT: i tried installing to another laptop using the same USB -stick and it works! (Acer Aspire S3) Strange..

Last edited by yaquya (2012-08-10 15:11:13)

el_koraco · 2012-08-10 15:17:40

When you're installing and it starts to hang, hit Ctrl+Alt+F4, which will drop you to a console. Take a picture of the screen, it will show some boot lines on a black screen. This seems to be a legitimate bug in the Wheezy installer, which has an usually high number of outstanding bugs in this release.

machinebacon · 2012-08-10 15:21:14

An idea: in the computer's BIOS (canbe accessed after start by pressing Delete or F10 or F2 or F8, depends on your model) disable floppy and other hardware you don't use (PCMCIA or similar).

yaquya · 2012-08-10 15:50:55

There was no floppy -entry in BIOS or anything like that.. weird. But yes, here is a photo taken with a phone:

machinebacon · 2012-08-10 16:04:39

"FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!"
can be ignored (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483781)

So we still have this "sending ioctl 5310 to a partition" ... no idea yet hmm Might be this bug: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/201 … 00184.html

Last edited by machinebacon (2012-08-10 16:05:54)

kelean · 2012-08-10 16:12:30

No floppy on mine either. I seen nothing that I could turn off in bios.

el_koraco · 2012-08-10 16:21:36

Are you guys trying to install from a USB drive via a USB3 slot?

machinebacon · 2012-08-10 16:22:55

Ummm, exactly the same problem. Maybe the drives get mounted too early. Might be this / that / and that

Last edited by machinebacon (2012-08-10 16:24:04)

kelean · 2012-08-10 16:27:45

el_koraco wrote:

Are you guys trying to install from a USB drive via a USB3 slot?

No usb3 on this machine.

Something I found, not sure if it makes a difference. My hard drive has as the first partition small fat16 partition.

machinebacon · 2012-08-10 16:44:28

^ This does make a difference. What's its function?

yaquya · 2012-08-10 18:42:18

Maybe someone smarter than i can tell me what i did. I used gparted to wipe the whole disk empty and left it unallocated.

Then i went to install waldorf, the point when it got stuck, i pressed ctrl-alt-f3 to wipe /etc/fstab empty.

Pressing ctrl-alt-f6 (or something) got me back to installer where everything was normal and installer finished like it should.

Hope this helps someone smile i still after 8 years being without wi***s, know nothing about linux, but these are the moments why i use it.

Thanks el_coraco, mr. baconmachine and all. Huge thanks to Corenominal for making this distro, you got yourself one more fan from finland. Like it or not. wink

Last edited by yaquya (2012-08-10 18:47:06)

machinebacon · 2012-08-10 18:53:39

Thanks for the tip.

Then i went to install waldorf, the point when it got stuck, i pressed ctrl-alt-f3 to wipe /etc/fstab empty.

This is it.

safetycopy · 2012-08-10 20:19:40

machinebacon wrote:

Thanks for the tip.
Then i went to install waldorf, the point when it got stuck, i pressed ctrl-alt-f3 to wipe /etc/fstab empty.
This is it.

Not sure I understood this, but when the install hung I did CTRL+ALT+F3, opened /etc/fstab in nano and deleted everything. When I got back to the installer, it was still hung.

lscpi from my Acer Aspire One:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 14h Processor Root Complex
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250]
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6250/6310]
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 42)
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB700/SB800/SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:15.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:15.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SB900 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

kelean · 2012-08-10 23:54:56

machinebacon wrote:

^ This does make a difference. What's its function?

It is labeled dell utility and boot loader. It was setup this way when I bought it.

machinebacon · 2012-08-11 00:56:58

@safetycopy: if you have time and try the installation again, can you take a photo of it or compare the error messages with those that are posted?

@kelean: seems you have/had some kind of Windows on it. Still using it? Not a political question big_smile

kelean · 2012-08-11 03:11:13

@machinebacon, Yes I do but not very often anymore. Do you think that the fat16 partition could be causing the problem.

Ifmunft Nepmayjup · 2012-08-11 03:48:01

I'm having the same problem trying to install Waldorf on my MSI GE60. I tried the method yaquya posted, but the installer still hangs for me as well. I've tried both the USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports on my computer, but it still hangs regardless. Here's what happened after removing the text from /etc/fstab:

And my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0154 (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0151 (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0166 (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e31 (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e3a (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e2d (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 1e20 (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e10 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e12 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e14 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e16 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e26 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e59 (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e03 (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 1e22 (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0fd4 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5209 (rev 01)
04:00.1 SD Host controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5209 (rev 01)
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 0892 (rev c4)

Last edited by Ifmunft Nepmayjup (2012-08-11 04:09:53)

safetycopy · 2012-08-11 05:03:24

@wakeywakeyeggsn'bacy: Will do. Tried taking a photo earlier but it was all blurry and since then I accidentally deleted my partition table and spent the last couple hours sorting that out big_smile Will try the install again tomorrow!

yaquya · 2012-08-11 05:28:33

I tried one more time. If i tried to install just wiping /etc/fstab, didnt work.

I booted to live session, deleted swap -space using gparted so there was only one partition left sda1.

Then back installing, got stuck, deleted fstab clean, and it finishes without problems creating a new swap space etc.

Very strange. Just let me know if there is something i can do or try smile

machinebacon · 2012-08-11 08:14:34

kelean wrote:

@machinebacon, Yes I do but not very often anymore. Do you think that the fat16 partition could be causing the problem.

I really can't tell you. GRUB usually doesn't care where the first (boot) partition is, but Windows only boots when the MBR is on the first partition. I will investigate, meanwhile let's hope somebody chimes in with a good solution for your problem (that is "debian-installer crashes when FAT16 is on hd0,0" or something like this, for further reference)

Usually it should not be a problem for installers if the first drive is FAT16 or anything. But seeing the mass of bug reports for the latest installers (also the netinstall iso's in testing) nothing is impossible.

Last edited by machinebacon (2012-08-11 08:40:15)

machinebacon · 2012-08-11 08:15:37

safetycopy wrote:

@wakeywakeyeggsn'bacy: Will do. Tried taking a photo earlier but it was all blurry and since then I accidentally deleted my partition table and spent the last couple hours sorting that out Will try the install again tomorrow!

This could even be a solution big_smile No worries wink

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