Debian Bug report logs - #592875
pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: qemu-system: PXE boot unstable using etherboot

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:26:45 -0700

Package: qemu-system
Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-1
Severity: important

qemu 0.12.x isn't working well with with etherboot, at least for me.

it seems to probe the NIC twice, and on the second time, it seems to at least
partially work, able to load pxelinux over the network. (this aspect of the
problem seems identical to http://bugs.debian.org/585170)

but then, after loading pxelinux, it seems to sometimes hang qemu (screen goes
black, unable to switch to qemu monitor), and if it doesn't, it takes very long
to boot. if it does boot, sometimes the network card stops working, hanging the
root filesystem with nfsroot.

upstream has switched to gPXE, which has not yet been uploaded to debian, as
there are some outstanding licensing issues. http://bugs.debian.org/474034

live well,
  vagrant

Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>, 591934@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#591934: qemu-system: PXE boot unstable using etherboot

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:42:21 +0400

06.08.2010 19:26, Vagrant Cascadian пишет:
> Package: qemu-system
> Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
>
> qemu 0.12.x isn't working well with with etherboot, at least for me.

Ditto for qemu-kvm, see
> it seems to probe the NIC twice, and on the second time, it seems to at least
> partially work, able to load pxelinux over the network. (this aspect of the
> problem seems identical to http://bugs.debian.org/585170)
>
> but then, after loading pxelinux, it seems to sometimes hang qemu (screen goes
> black, unable to switch to qemu monitor), and if it doesn't, it takes very long
> to boot. if it does boot, sometimes the network card stops working, hanging the
> root filesystem with nfsroot.
>
> upstream has switched to gPXE, which has not yet been uploaded to debian, as
> there are some outstanding licensing issues. http://bugs.debian.org/474034
>
> live well,
>    vagrant
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pkg-qemu-devel mailing list
> pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-qemu-devel

Message #20 received at 591934@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>, 591934@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#591934: qemu-system: PXE boot unstable using etherboot

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:44:07 +0400

06.08.2010 19:26, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Package: qemu-system
> Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
>
> qemu 0.12.x isn't working well with with etherboot, at least for me.

Ditto for qemu-kvm, see #585170 .

I asked on qemu-deve list (and someone CC'd etherboot), but no
answer come from that direction except of switching to discussing
gpxe licensing again...

/mjt

Message #25 received at 591934@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>

To: 591934@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#591934: qemu-system: PXE boot unstable using etherboot

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:28:23 -0700

retitle 591934 pxelinux: incompatible with qemu
clone 591934 -1
reassign -1 syslinux-common
found -1 4.00~pre53+dfsg-1
thanks

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 08:26:45AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> but then, after loading pxelinux, it seems to sometimes hang qemu (screen goes
> black, unable to switch to qemu monitor), and if it doesn't, it takes very long
> to boot. if it does boot, sometimes the network card stops working, hanging the
> root filesystem with nfsroot.
 
it seems to be an incompatibility with pxelinux from syslinux-common. i tested
versions 2:3.71+dfsg-5 (in lenny) and 3.86+dfsg-5 (from snapshot.debian.org),
which both seemed to work.

the problem seems to have been introduced in syslinux-common 4.00~pre53+dfsg-1.
also tested with 4.00+dfsg-1 and 2:4.02+dfsg-3.

live well,
  vagrant

Message #40 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>

To: 592875@bugs.debian.org, 591934@bugs.debian.org

Subject: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:22:10 -0700

i tried with qemu 0.9.1-10lenny1 and it actually seemed to network boot fine
with pxelinux (except for the default network card, ne2k_pci).

since that version doesn't support kvm, i tried qemu 0.12.x with kvm support
disabled, and that seemed to also work.

so specifically, it appears to be a problem with the interaction of newer
versions (4.x) of syslinux/pxelinux and qemu with kvm support enabled.

wheee.

live well,
  vagrant

Message #45 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>, 592875@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 591934@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:45:28 +0200

On 08/13/2010 06:22 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> so specifically, it appears to be a problem with the interaction of newer
> versions (4.x) of syslinux/pxelinux and qemu with kvm support enabled.

could you please ask this on syslinux@zytor.com? as you know, i'm away
for the next three weeks and can't handle it myself before that.

-- 
Address:        Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist
Email:          daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net
Internet:       http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/

Message #50 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>

To: syslinux@zytor.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Cc: 592875@bugs.debian.org, 591934@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu with kvm enabled

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:15:26 -0700

it seems versions of pxelinux 4.00 and later hangs qemu (0.12.x, 0.13.x) when
network booting using etherboot or gPXE and qemu's kvm support is enabled.

pxelinux 3.86 and earlier do not appear to trigger the problem. i also didn't
experience the problem with qemu-kvm (formerly known as kvm). qemu without kvm
support enabled also seems to work fine.

for more details, please see:

  http://bugs.debian.org/592875
  http://bugs.debian.org/591934

thanks!

live well,
  vagrant

Message #55 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa <syslinux@zytor.com>

Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 592875@bugs.debian.org, 591934@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [syslinux] Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu with kvm enabled

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:41:26 -0700

On 08/24/2010 12:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> it seems versions of pxelinux 4.00 and later hangs qemu (0.12.x, 0.13.x) when
> network booting using etherboot or gPXE and qemu's kvm support is enabled.
> 
> pxelinux 3.86 and earlier do not appear to trigger the problem. i also didn't
> experience the problem with qemu-kvm (formerly known as kvm). qemu without kvm
> support enabled also seems to work fine.
> 
> for more details, please see:
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/592875
>   http://bugs.debian.org/591934
> 

Any way you can do a git bisect on this one?

	-hpa

Message #64 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>

Cc: 592875@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:12:55 +0100

tag 592875 moreinfo
severity 592875 normal
thanks

4.03 got a couple of pxe fixes, please retry with the version from 
experimental.

Regards,
Daniel

-- 
Address:        Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist
Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
Internet:       http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

Message #73 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>

To: daniel@debian.org, 592875@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:03:15 -0500

4.03 still has a big bug in PXELINUX.  This bug affects any PXE call
that might destroy PXELINUX.  4.04-pre1 and later have the patch to
resolve this.  I'm not sure what the timetable is on a 4.04 final
release.

Daniel, feel free to contact me if you want more details.

-- 
-Gene

Message #78 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

To: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>

Cc: 592875@bugs.debian.org, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:05:19 +0100

On 01/08/2011 04:03 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> 4.03 still has a big bug in PXELINUX.  This bug affects any PXE call
> that might destroy PXELINUX.  4.04-pre1 and later have the patch to
> resolve this.  I'm not sure what the timetable is on a 4.04 final
> release.

ah, nice.. haven't catched up with the mailinglist backlog :) will 
cherry-pick the patch then.

-- 
Address:        Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist
Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
Internet:       http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

Message #83 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>

To: daniel@debian.org

Cc: 592875@bugs.debian.org, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:36:09 -0500

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:05, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote:
> On 01/08/2011 04:03 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> 4.03 still has a big bug in PXELINUX.  This bug affects any PXE call
>> that might destroy PXELINUX.  4.04-pre1 and later have the patch to
>> resolve this.  I'm not sure what the timetable is on a 4.04 final
>> release.
>
> ah, nice.. haven't catched up with the mailinglist backlog :) will
> cherry-pick the patch then.

It's 3 commits but less than 20 lines in total.  They should be the
only three touching core/pxelinux.asm since 4.03.

d8402d0
3341e22
5a8a7bf7

-- 
-Gene

Message #94 received at 592875@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

To: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>

Cc: 592875@bugs.debian.org, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#592875: pxelinux: incompatible with qemu

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:21:05 +0100

On 01/08/2011 04:36 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> It's 3 commits but less than 20 lines in total.  They should be the
> only three touching core/pxelinux.asm since 4.03.

thanks a lot, applied and uploaded.

-- 
Address:        Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist
Email:          daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net
Internet:       http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/

Message #99 received at 592875-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

To: 592875-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#592875: fixed in syslinux 2:4.03+dfsg-7

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:32:32 +0000

Source: syslinux
Source-Version: 2:4.03+dfsg-7

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
syslinux, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

extlinux_4.03+dfsg-7_i386.deb
  to main/s/syslinux/extlinux_4.03+dfsg-7_i386.deb
syslinux-common_4.03+dfsg-7_all.deb
  to main/s/syslinux/syslinux-common_4.03+dfsg-7_all.deb
syslinux_4.03+dfsg-7.debian.tar.gz
  to main/s/syslinux/syslinux_4.03+dfsg-7.debian.tar.gz
syslinux_4.03+dfsg-7.dsc
  to main/s/syslinux/syslinux_4.03+dfsg-7.dsc
syslinux_4.03+dfsg-7_i386.deb
  to main/s/syslinux/syslinux_4.03+dfsg-7_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 592875@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> (supplier of updated syslinux package)

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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:18:54 +0100
Source: syslinux
Binary: syslinux extlinux syslinux-common
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2:4.03+dfsg-7
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Syslinux Maintainers <syslinux@lists.debian-maintainers.org>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Description: 
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 syslinux   - collection of boot loaders
 syslinux-common - collection of boot loaders (common files)
Closes: 592875
Changes: 
 syslinux (2:4.03+dfsg-7) experimental; urgency=low
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