upgrading kernel in VMware Virtual machine of dapper kills the VM

[matthew nicholson]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 16:25 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 15:30 -0500, matt nicholson wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:20 PM, matt nicholson wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Ben Collins wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:50 -0500, matt nicholson wrote:
> > >>> Not sure which mailing list to post this to so going to both users 
> > >>> and
> > >>> devel.
> > >>>
> > >>> I have dapper running in a VM on VMware 5.5, breezy as a host. All of
> > >>> the recent Dapper upgrades have gone quite nice thus far, with one
> > >>> exception. When performing the upgrade of linux-image-386(2.6.12.16 
> > >>> to
> > >>> 2.6.15.4) and linux-restricted-modules-386(2.6.12.16 to 2.6.15.4), 
> > >>> the
> > >>> VM dies. By this i mean that, upon reboot, Grub comes up, the system
> > >>> starts to boot (the new "handdrawn" usplash comes up), and it gets as
> > >>> far a "Mounting the root file system" After a few seconds here, I get
> > >>> dropped to a console saying:
> > >>>   Alert! /dev/sda1/ does not exist. Dropping you to a shell!
> > >>
> > >> Could you tell me the actual version of the linux-image itself
> > >> (linux-image-2.6.15-6-386 or -7-386, most likely).
> > >>
> > > Working: linux-image-2.6.12-9-386
> > > Failing linux-image-2.6.15-7-386
> 
> Expected. We added the BusLogic device table in -8 or -9, can't recall.
> 
> > >> Also, try adding BusLogic to initramfs module list and run
> > >> "update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.15-7-386"
> > >>
> > > do this after a the new kernel is installed, before reboot?
> > > Will try
> > >>
> > 
> > Tried this. No luck. Exact same situation.
> 
> Ok, send me lspci and dmesg output please (working kernel).
> 
> > >> You may also want to try and see if switching vmware to use the IDE 
> > >> disk
> > >> simulation instead of the SCSI disk works too.
> > >>
> > > Will also try
> > >
> > 
> > You cannot change from SCSI -> IDE without creating a new disk. so this 
> > wouldn't work, unless a reinstall was done.
> 
> Are you sure? Even if you power off the virtual machine, it still wont
> let you change it?
> 
i'm sure. cdrom=yes. hard drive=no.

lspci is as follows:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX
Host bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX
AGP bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev
08)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
(rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
0000:00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI
Display Adapter
0000:00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030
PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01)
0000:00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970
[PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
0000:00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
(rev 02)

dmesg is as follows:

sjoeboo at dapper:~$ dmesg
4294667.296000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000,
GSI 0-23
[4294667.296000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high
edge)
[4294667.296000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[4294667.296000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[4294667.296000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[4294667.296000] Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
[4294667.296000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap:
20000000:de c00000)
[4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists
[4294667.296000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
[4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[4294667.296000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0
[4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
[4294667.296000] Detected 2018.368 MHz processor.
[4294667.296000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[4294667.296000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[4294668.410000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7,
524288 bytes )
[4294668.411000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144
bytes)
[4294668.420000] Memory: 511236k/524288k available (1415k kernel code,
12420k re served, 763k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
[4294668.420000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in
superviso r mode... Ok.
[4294668.421000] Calibrating delay loop... 3973.12 BogoMIPS
(lpj=1986560)
[4294668.443000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[4294668.443000] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[4294668.443000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[4294668.444000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0febfbff 00000000
00000000 0 0000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[4294668.444000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0febfbff 00000000
00000000 00 000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[4294668.444000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[4294668.444000] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[4294668.444000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0febfbff 00000000 00000000
00000080  00000000 00000000 00000000
[4294668.444000] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 08
[4294668.444000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[4294668.444000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[4294668.444000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[4294668.448000] Checking for popad bug... OK.
[4294668.451000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[4294668.915000] Freeing initrd memory: 4819k freed
[4294668.916000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
[4294668.965000]  not found!
[4294668.972000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[4294668.972000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
[4294669.084000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[4294669.084000] EISA bus registered
[4294669.084000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[4294669.084000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9a0, last
bus=1
[4294669.084000] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[4294669.084000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
[4294669.086000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729
[4294669.099000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[4294669.099000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[4294669.099000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[4294669.099000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[4294669.100000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
[4294669.108000] Boot video device is 0000:00:0f.0
[4294669.110000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[4294669.112000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11
14 15) *0, disabled.
[4294669.112000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10
*11 14 15)[4294669.112000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6
7 9 *10 11 14 15)[4294669.112000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs
3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 14 15)[4294669.126000] Linux Plug and Play Support
v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[4294669.126000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[4294669.148000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[4294669.148000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[4294669.149000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[4294669.149000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If
it helps , post a report
[4294669.149000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device
0000:00:07.1
[4294669.152000] Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
[4294669.154000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[4294669.154000] audit: initialized
[4294669.154000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[4294669.154000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096
bytes)
[4294669.154000] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
[4294669.154000] devfs: boot_options: 0x0
[4294669.154000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[4294669.154000] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
[4294669.155000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[4294669.511000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[4294669.524000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:MOUS] at
0x60,0x64 ir q 1,12
[4294670.035000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[4294670.035000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[4294670.035000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports,
IRQ shari ng enabled
[4294670.036000] ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[4294670.037000] ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[4294670.037000] ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[4294670.037000] ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[4294670.037000] io scheduler noop registered
[4294670.037000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[4294670.037000] io scheduler deadline registered
[4294670.037000] io scheduler cfq registered
[4294670.037000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size
1024 bl ocksize
[4294670.038000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[4294670.038000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[4294670.038000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[4294670.038000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[4294670.044000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
[4294670.050000] IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
[4294670.050000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8,
1048576 b ytes)
[4294670.050000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144
bytes)
[4294670.050000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind
65536)
[4294670.050000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[4294670.050000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[4294670.051000] ACPI wakeup devices:
[4294670.051000]  USB
[4294670.051000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5)
[4294670.051000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
[4294670.110000] vga16fb: initializing
[4294670.110000] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[4294670.176000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[4294670.176000] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[4294671.509000] Capability LSM initialized
[4294671.535000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[4294671.556000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision:
7.00alpha2
[4294671.556000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
override wi th idebus=xx
[4294671.556000] ACPI: bus type ide registered
[4294671.580000] Fusion MPT base driver 3.01.20
[4294671.580000] Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation
[4294671.580000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> I RQ 17
[4294671.580000] mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
[4294671.581000] ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator}
[4294671.585000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[4294671.586000] Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 3.01.20
[4294671.586000] scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=00000000h, Ports=1,
MaxQ=128, I RQ=17
[4294671.587000]   Vendor: VMware,   Model: VMware Virtual S  Rev: 1.0
[4294671.587000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI
revision : 02
[4294671.598000] PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
[4294671.598000] PIIX4: chipset revision 1
[4294671.598000] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[4294671.598000]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x14d8-0x14df, BIOS settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd: pio
[4294671.598000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[4294672.270000] hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM
drive
[4294672.580000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[4294672.586000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294673.101000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[4294673.614000] Probing IDE interface ide3...
[4294674.128000] Probing IDE interface ide4...
[4294674.642000] Probing IDE interface ide5...
[4294675.222000] hdc: ATAPI 1X CD-ROM drive, 32kB Cache
[4294675.223000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[4294675.284000] SCSI device sda: 16777216 512-byte hdwr sectors (8590
MB)
[4294675.286000] sda: asking for cache data failed
[4294675.287000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4294675.296000] SCSI device sda: 16777216 512-byte hdwr sectors (8590
MB)
[4294675.296000] sda: asking for cache data failed
[4294675.296000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4294675.296000]  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
[4294675.345000] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4294681.279000] Attempting manual resume
[4294681.283000] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
[4294681.492000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[4294681.493000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[4294681.499000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
[4294681.501000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> I RQ 19
[4294681.502000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB
PIIX4 US B
[4294681.571000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned
bus num ber 1
[4294681.572000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 19, io base 0x00001060
[4294681.590000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294681.592000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294681.775000] pcnet32.c:v1.30j 29.04.2005 tsbogend at alpha.franken.de
[4294681.776000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
low) -> I RQ 18
[4294681.778000] pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x1400, 00 0c 29 f6 f7
84 assi gned IRQ 18.
[4294681.782000] eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
[4294681.783000] pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
[4294692.844000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
[4294692.845000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
[4294696.160000] Attempting manual resume
[4294696.161000] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
[4294696.237000] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[4294696.240000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[4294698.892000] md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[4294724.678000] Adding 377488k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1
extents:1
[4294726.842000] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[4294729.726000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[4294729.727000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[4294729.879000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[4294730.113000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[4294730.255000] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
[4294736.997000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised:
dm-devel at r edhat.com
[4294744.053000] cdrom: open failed.
[4294764.994000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[4294765.238000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
[4294765.336000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
[4294769.400000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[4294770.212000] shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
[4294770.212000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver
version: 0.4
[4294771.480000] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
[4294771.481000] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Host SMBus controller not
enabled!
[4294776.077000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> I RQ 19
[4294782.441000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[4294782.686000] input: PC Speaker
[4294783.279000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[4294783.317000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[4294790.507000] Linux Kernel Card Services
[4294790.507000]   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
[4294790.895000] Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
[4294790.970000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual add ress 00000000
[4294790.970000]  printing eip:
[4294790.970000] c0112cac
[4294790.970000] *pde = 00000000
[4294790.970000] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[4294790.970000] Modules linked in: i82365 rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core
floppy pcs pkr rtc snd_ens1371 gameport snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device
snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_o ss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd
soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_piix4 i2c_co re shpchp pci_hotplug
intel_agp agpgart dm_mod psmouse mousedev parport_pc lp pa rport md ext3
jbd thermal processor fan pcnet32 mii uhci_hcd usbcore sd_mod ide_ cd
cdrom ide_generic mptscsih scsi_mod mptbase piix ide_core unix vesafb
capabil ity commoncap vga16fb vgastate softcursor cfbimgblt cfbfillrect
cfbcopyarea fbco n tileblit font bitblit
[4294790.970000] CPU:    0
[4294790.970000] EIP:    0060:[<c0112cac>]    Not tainted VLI
[4294790.970000] EFLAGS: 00010086   (2.6.12-9-386)
[4294790.970000] EIP is at __wake_up_common+0xf/0x47
[4294790.970000] eax: e0a1fc48   ebx: 00000001   ecx: e0a1be30   edx:
00000000
[4294790.970000] esi: c02ea2c8   edi: e0a1fc48   ebp: df559f38   esp:
df559f28
[4294790.970000] ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
[4294790.970000] Process modprobe (pid: 5832, threadinfo=df558000
task=df441020)[4294790.970000] Stack: c02ea2e0 00000286 c02ea2c8
c02ea2e0 df559f58 c0112d5a e0 a1fc48 00000003
[4294790.970000]        00000001 00000000 00000000 e0a1e96c c02ea5c4
c019965b e0 a1e948 e0a1e984
[4294790.970000]        c0199680 c0000000 df558000 c0199d92 e0a1e96c
00000000 e0 a1e8c0 c01996a0
[4294790.970000] Call Trace:
[4294790.970000]  [<c0112d5a>] complete+0x1a/0x24
[4294790.970000]  [<c019965b>] kobject_cleanup+0x40/0x65
[4294790.970000]  [<c0199680>] kobject_release+0x0/0xa
[4294790.970000]  [<c0199d92>] kref_put+0x46/0x54
[4294790.970000]  [<c01996a0>] kobject_put+0x16/0x19
[4294790.970000]  [<c0199680>] kobject_release+0x0/0xa
[4294790.970000]  [<e09ebda8>] init_i82365+0x70/0x165 [i82365]
[4294790.970000]  [<c0129682>] sys_init_module+0xb5/0x172
[4294790.970000]  [<c0102e9f>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
[4294790.970000] Code: 08 03 8d 65 f4 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 8b 45 08
8b 50 04 89 55 08 5d e9 07 f8 ff ff 55 89 e5 57 56 53 57 8b 7d 08 8b 5d
10 8b 17 <8b> 02 39 fa 89 45 f0 74 27 8b 72 f4 ff 75 18 8d 42 f4 ff 75
14
[4294790.970000]  <6>NET: Registered protocol family 17
[4294807.321000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[4294807.331000] Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02eb280(lo)
[4294807.354000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[4294815.160000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
[4294816.277000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[4294818.029000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[4294818.253000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[4294855.876000] vmhgfs: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel
tainted.
[4294855.877000] vmhgfs: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[4294856.794000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version
1.16ac)
[4294856.795000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[4294858.839000] hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
Error }
[4294858.839000] hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }
[4294858.839000] ide: failed opcode was: 0xec
[4294858.905000] hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
Error }
[4294858.905000] hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand }
[4294858.905000] ide: failed opcode was: 0xec
[4294860.530000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.7
[4294860.530000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[4294860.530000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager
initialized
[4294860.531000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[4294860.705000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.7
[4294860.705000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[4294860.718000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.5
[4294860.718000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[4294860.719000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized


thanks.
-- 
matthew nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com>
sjoeboo.com
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