[syslinux] pxelinux.bin (3.80) hanging at the beginning of menu.c32 TFTP transfer

[H. Peter Anvin]

Philippe Auphelle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using syslinux 3.80, I'm seeing pxelinux.bin hanging after the
> (succesfull) transfer of the default file.
> Running a lan trace, it appears that all goes fine until the time
> pxelinux sends a TFTP RRQ for menu.c32 to the TFTP server, gets the
> first data packet back, and apparently freezes at this point.
> The TFTP server then times out and retries (3 times) then finally
> sends an error packet with an ErrMsg of "time out".
> Using 3.80, the client machine is frozen, but keyboard interrupts are
> still processed, and Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots.
> Using 3.72, I get similar results, but with keyboard interrupts stuck
> (the machine needs hard reset or power cycling).
> 
> The TFTP service involved doesn't support tsize, but studying the the
> release notes indicate that pxelinux handles this situation since
> 3.70.
> Finally, in case this could help diagnosing the problem, I have
> recorded a LAN trace that shows the whole client / tftp server dialog
> since pxelinux startup, up to and including the final retries and
> error message.
> 
> Is there anything else I could do to help diagnose that problem?
> 

Could you try 3.81-pre10 from the Testing directory?

	-hpa

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