AMD64 Daily builds always hangs

[KairiTech]

I've never been able to get any of the AMD64 daily builds (Gnome, XFCE, E17) to install. A few seconds after X starts it lock up solid and I can't even get to the Alt-F1 console. If I try the text install it hang at the searching for storage message. I can get to Alt-F1 then but there are no error messages that seem to indicate what the problem is.

Here is the output of lspci. Is there any other details that I need to provide that can help track down a solution? I'm very keen on using the E17 spin.

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 70)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
03:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
03:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation NF200 PCIe 2.0 switch for mainboards (rev a2)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)
06:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7164 (rev d1)
08:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b2)

[Thev00d00]

We need logs from the live sessions.

[wolfden]

moved to correct forum, please keep daily/weekly stuff to this forum to prevent confusion from stable releases

[joeoden]

Have you checked the md5 of the iso and the md5 of the CD/DVD you created

I used UNetbootin to place the images on USB sticks
Booted computers to live session no problems with both builds on my desktop and notebook using

a 1 GiB USB stick
Sabayon_Linux_DAILY_amd64_E17.iso
Built on: 2010-08-11 03:05:24.812061

a 4 GiB USB stick
Sabayon_Linux_DAILY_amd64_E17.iso
Built on: 2010-08-15 03:05:19.628061

Other problems I have seen are
Incorrect BIOS settings
Faulty CD/DVD disc, I always seem to have a couple when trying the cheap brands
Faulty fan (running at half speed) on cheap graphic card will cause X to lock-up (overheating)

[KairiTech]

I can't do anything once the graphical install locks up.

What is the best way to capture the logs (and which ones) when the text install hangs?

And about the md5...I downloaded, burned and installed the Sabayon_Linux_5.3_amd64_G.iso images several times on the exact same hardware and never had a problem. Even durned the dailys to the same DVD just to be sure then burned the Sabayon_Linux_5.3_amd64_G.iso image to the same DVD again and it worked every time.

[joeoden]

Just because you burnt Sabayon_Linux_5.3_amd64_G.iso and that works does not mean that the Sabayon_Linux_DAILY_amd64_E17.iso file you downloaded is OK it may have been damaged while downloading

To check md5 use this method http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... or_LiveDVD

There is no problem with iso image that I downloaded from ftp://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sabayonlinux/
I just installed Sabayon_Linux_DAILY_amd64_E17 on to my test computer and there was no problems using custom disk layout with /boot = 500 MiB swap = 2 GiB and /= 37 GiB

Your log files READ THEM FIRST (dmesg, Xorg.0.log , anaconda.log, anaconda.*.* and messages)
can be found in the directory /var/log

The live session Installer logs are in the directory /var/log/installer
Sorry the above line should be
live session Installer logs (anaconda.log, program.log and storage.log) are in the directory /tmp

xorg.conf in the directory /etc/X11/

And the hidden file .xsession-errors can be found in /home/the user name/

The logs can be very large so save them with the extension .txt in your /home/ then compress the files and add as attachment, do not paste the contents in your posts