[Bug 1459706] Re: Ubuntu 15.10 daily ISO installation fails to reboot with Program Exception

Mon Jun 22 19:32:29 UTC 2015

Well, that particular failure is unrelated to grub -- it's caused by
systemd updates which fail the installation while all packages aren't up
to date on the mirrors being used.

I've noticed the fix is on the upstream git as well as in Debian; we'll
get it in Ubuntu shortly.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 15.10 daily ISO installation fails to reboot with Program
  Exception

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - SACHIN P. SANT <ssant at in.ibm.com> - 2015-05-27 02:05:10 ==
  ---Problem Description---
  Ubuntu 15.10 daily ISO installation fails to reboot with Program Exception

  Contact Information = Sachin Sant / ssant at in.ibm.com 

  ---uname output---
  3.19.0-18-generic

  Machine Type = POWER8 

  ---Debugger---
  A debugger is not configured

  ---Steps to Reproduce---
   1) Start Ubuntu 15.10 installation as a Power KVM guest.
  2) Post installation guest will be rebooted.
  3) Post reboot guest fails with following messages :

  Escape character is ^]

  SLOF **********************************************************************
  QEMU Starting
   Build Date = Mar 17 2015 15:44:58
   FW Version = mockbuild@ release 20150317
   Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.

  Populating /vdevice methods
  Populating /vdevice/l-lan at 1000
  Populating /vdevice/v-scsi at 2000
         SCSI: Looking for devices
            8001000000000000 CD-ROM   : "QEMU     QEMU CD-ROM      2.0."
            8000000000000000 DISK     : "QEMU     QEMU HARDDISK    2.0."
  Populating /vdevice/vty at 30000000
  Populating /vdevice/nvram at 71000000
  Populating /pci at 800000020000000
   Adapters on 0800000020000000
                       00 0800 (D) : 106b 003f    serial bus [ usb-ohci ]
                       00 1000 (D) : 1af4 1002    unknown-legacy-device*
  No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
  Scanning USB 
    OHCI: initializing
  Using default console: /vdevice/vty at 30000000

    Welcome to Open Firmware

    Copyright (c) 2004, 2011 IBM Corporation All rights reserved.
    This program and the accompanying materials are made available
    under the terms of the BSD License available at
    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

  Trying to load:  from: /vdevice/v-scsi at 2000/disk at 8000000000000000 ... 
  No DOS disk-label found.
    Successfully loaded

  ( 700 ) Program Exception [ 0 ]

      R0 .. R7           R8 .. R15         R16 .. R23         R24 .. R31
  0000000000000000   0000000000000000   0000000000000000   000000007dd12ad0   
  000000007dd12ac0   0000000061676963   0000000000000000   000000000021aad8   
  0000000000000000   0000000000000000   0000000000657269   00000000c0000000   
  0000000000181210   000000007dd12ac0   000000006300656e   0000000055654f44   
  00000000001812a4   0000000000200360   0000000065726963   0000000000000000   
  0000000000000000   0000000000000000   0000000000d12c28   0000000000000000   
  0000000000000000   0000000000000000   00000000001ebcf0   000000000021aa1c   
  000000000020f628   0000000000000000   0000000000000002   0000000000000000   

      CR / XER           LR / CTR          SRR0 / SRR1        DAR / DSISR
          80023022   0000000000000000   0000000000000000   0000000000000000   
  0000000000000000   0000000000200360   8000000000081000           00000000   

  3a > 

  Install method: DVD

  Install disk info: d

  Install ISO Information: wily-server-ppc64el.iso

  *Additional Instructions for Sachin Sant / ssant at in.ibm.com: 
  -Post a private note with access information to the machine that the bug is occuring on.

  == Comment: #2 - Colleen R. Stouffer <cs at us.ibm.com> - 2015-05-27 17:57:50 ==
  This system does not use Partition Firmware.  KVM uses SLOF.

  The error is a Program Exception 700, which is an illegal instruction.  The 
  address of the instruction in SRR0 is 0.  Code is attempting to execute at that
  address.

  == Comment: #6 - David Heller <hellerda at us.ibm.com> - 2015-05-28 10:23:37 ==
  From LTC bug 116747 Comment 12 Paulo Flabiano Smorigo 2014-09-29 18:21:13 EDT

  That exception is caused by a VSX exception (f40 at SRR0) in the
  release 13 of grub package. A new package (14) was released friday and
  fixes that problem.

  From LTC bug 116747 Comment 16 Paulo Flabiano Smorigo 2014-09-30
  14:33:41 EDT

  grub is fixed in the ISO but in order to use this new version another
  package, debian-installer, needed to be rebuilt.

  SO it looks like some patches were not forward-ported to grub-
  installer in 15.10

  FYI: Another dup was LTC bug 116767, which was mirrored to LP 1375216.

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