Problem installing F19 under Hercules 3.09

[Jan Stodola]

On 08/18/2013 02:34 PM, Ian Shorter wrote:
> I'm trying to install F19 s390x under Hercules 3.09 running on an F19 x86_64 machine, but without success. When I had Hercules defined with NUMCPU 1, I usually ended up with the install in a 6-instruction loop. Having read elsewhere that single cpu's might be a problem, Hercules is now defined with NUMCPU 2, which produces different results.
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> I always get to the "Please ssh install at blah.blah.blah (192.168.236.200) to begin the install" message. I ssh and start the vncveiwer. The vncveiwer window in blank (black), although sometimes a grey rectangle appears, until it is closed. The ssh messages for the last three attempts were:-
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> Attempt one.
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> Please manually connect your vnc client to blah.blah.blah:1 (192.168.236.200) to begin the install.
> [xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
> [xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
> [xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
> python: xcb_io.c:179: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.
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> Attempts two and three
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> Please manually connect your vnc client to blah.blah.blah:1 (192.168.236.200) to begin the install.
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> (anaconda:824): Gdk-WARNING **: anaconda: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1.
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> My generic.prm contains:-
> ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!0.0.0009 rd.dasd=0.0.0120 ip=192.168.236.200:192.168.236.100:192.168.236.100:24:blah.blah.blah:ctc0:none rd.znet=ctc,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,protocol=0 root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img nameserver=192.168.3.206 vnc
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> I assume the problem is a timing issue, but I don't know where to start looking. What info, if any, can I provide? Any suggestions gratefully received.
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> Regards, Ian
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Hi Ian,
I also have F19/x86_64 with hercules-3.09-1.fc19 and installation of 
F19/s390x in vnc mode is running fine so far - packages are being 
installed at the moment. Here are my configuration files:

hercules.cnf contains:
CPUSERIAL 002623        # CPU serial number
CPUMODEL  2064          # CPU model number: 3090, 7490, 2064
MAINSIZE  1024           # Main storage size in megabytes
NUMCPU    2             # Number of CPUs
CNSLPORT  3270          # TCP port number to which consoles connect
OSTAILOR  LINUX         # OS tailoring
LOADPARM  0120....      # IPL parameter
ARCHMODE  ESAME         # Architecture mode S/370, ESA/390 or ESAME
TZOFFSET  +0100         # Central Europe
LOGOPT    NOTIMESTAMP   # Avoid timestamps for log messages
TIMERINT  200           # Increase timers update interval, improves 
performance
TODDRAG   2             # Higher TOD clock drag means less interrupts -> 
higher performance
PANRATE   SLOW          # Slowest update
TRACEOPT  NOREGS        # Don't display registers
LDMOD     hdt3088.so hdt3420.so hdt3505.so
000C  3505 /home/jstodola/fedora_s390x/kernel.img 
/home/jstodola/fedora_s390x/parm /home/jstodola/fedora_s390x/initrd.img 
autopad
0120  3390 /home/jstodola/fedora_s390x/disk.img
0600,0601 CTCI -n /dev/net/tun 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.4

parameter file contains:
ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!0.0.0009 rd.dasd=0.0.0120 
rd.znet=ctc,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,protocol=0 
ip=192.168.1.3:192.168.1.4:192.168.1.4:255.255.255.0::ctc0:none 
nameserver=xx.xx.xx.xx 
inst.repo=http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Fedora/s390x/os/

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Jan