[Bug 1615021] Re: Unable to network boot Ubuntu 16.04 installer normally on Briggs

[Steve Langasek]

** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Unable to network boot Ubuntu 16.04 installer normally on Briggs

Status in busybox package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #7 - Guilherme Guaglianoni Piccoli <gpiccoli at br.ibm.com> - 2016-08-19 10:08:07 ==
  The normal procedure to perform a Netboot installation of Ubuntu 16.04 is to download the latest vmlinux and initrd.gz files available, and kexec them with no parameters (at least in ppc64el).

  We're experiencing a strange issue in which the installer freezes
  before menus are showed. The system hangs in the point specified
  below, right after the i40e driver initialization:

  [   11.052832] i40e 0002:01:00.0 enP2p1s0f0: renamed from eth0
  [   11.073976] i40e 0002:01:00.1 enP2p1s0f1: renamed from eth1
  [   11.117799] i40e 0002:01:00.2 enP2p1s0f2: renamed from eth2
  [   11.225745] i40e 0002:01:00.3 enP2p1s0f3: renamed from eth3
  ***HANG***

  The most difficult part in this issue is that it seems to be a timing
  issue/race condition, and many debug trials end up by avoiding the
  issue reproduction (heisenbug).

  We were successful though in getting logs by booting the kernel with
  the command-line "BOOT_DEBUG=2" and by changing the initrd in order to
  enable systemd debug; only the files "init" and "start-udev" were
  changed in initrd, both attached here.

  We've attached here a saved screen session that shows the entire boot
  process until it gets flooded with lots of messages like:

  
  "starting '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules'
  '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules'(err) 'failed to execute '/bin/readlink' '/bin/readlink /etc/
  udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules': No such file or directory'

  seq 3244 queued, 'add' 'pci_bus'
  starting '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules'
  passed 408 byte device to netlink monitor 0x1003cfe8020seq 3236 running'/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-l
  ink.rules'(err) 'failed to execute '/bin/readlink' '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules': No such
  file or directory'
  '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules'(err) 'failed to execute '/bin/readlink' '/bin/readlink /etc/
  udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules': No such file or directory'
  Process '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules' failed with exit code 2.
  PROGRAM '/bin/readlink /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules' /lib/udev/rules.d/73-usb-net-by-mac.rules:6
  passed device to netlink monitor 0x1003d01f730
  "

  
  Then it keeps hanged in this stage. We re-tested it by changing the file 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules in initrd, replacing " /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules" to  "/lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules", since the former does not exist whereas the latter does. Same issue were observed!

  Notice that if we boot the installer with command-line "net.ifnames=0"
  or "net.ifnames=1", the problem does not reproduces anymore.

  We want to ask Canonical's help in investigating this issue.
  Thanks,

  
  Guilherme

  == Comment: #8 - Guilherme Guaglianoni Piccoli <gpiccoli at br.ibm.com> -
  2016-08-19 10:09:51 ==

  
  == Comment: #9 - Guilherme Guaglianoni Piccoli <gpiccoli at br.ibm.com> - 2016-08-19 10:10:31 ==

  
  == Comment: #10 - Guilherme Guaglianoni Piccoli <gpiccoli at br.ibm.com> - 2016-08-19 10:11:49 ==

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